Miyagawa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: meaning ‘shrine river’, the name is found mostly in the Ryukyu Islands
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/miːjəɡɑːwə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Miyagawa is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Japan.
- JPJapan
- USUnited States
- PEPeru
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
meaning ‘shrine river’, the name is found mostly in the Ryukyu Islands.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Miyagawa is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, satsuma (seedless cultivar of tangerine, Citrus unshiu)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kazuo Miyagawab. 1908JPJapanese cinematographer (1908–1999)
- Yōichi Miyagawab. 1928JPJapanese actor
- Hiroshi Miyagawab. 1931JPJapanese composer
- Tadatoshi Miyagawab. 1935JPJapanese composer
- Susana Higuchib. 1950PEnot in their usual namePeruvian politician (1950–2021)
- Takeo Miyakawab. 1955JPnot in their usual nameJapanese specialist of Japanese juvenile literature
- Daisuke Miyagawab. 1972JPJapanese owarai talent and comedian (1972-)
- Miho Miyagawab. 1977JPJapanese voice actress
- Satoshi Miyagawab. 1977JPJapanese association football player
- Noriko Miyagawab. 1979JPJapanese politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Miyagawa mean, and where does it come from?
- meaning ‘shrine river’, the name is found mostly in the Ryukyu Islands. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Miyagawa?
- A machine transcription gives /miːjəɡɑːwə/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- In which country does Miyagawa have the most bearers?
- Miyagawa is most frequently recorded in Japan.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/miyagawaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
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Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Miyagawa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.