Muraoka
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘village hill’; found throughout Japan, but not in large numbers
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/mʊɹɑˈoʊkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Muraoka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 553K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 445K
- BEBelgium1 in 2.9M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 56 (measured from records)
- 1 in 445K (inferred from the name graph)
748 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)‘village hill’; found throughout Japan, but not in large numbers.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Muraoka counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
748 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Tsunetsugu Muraokab. 1884JPJapanese historian
- Hanako Muraokab. 1893JPJapanese novelist and translator (1893–1968)
- Kenji Muraokab. 1935JPJapanese historian
- Takamitsu Muraokab. 1938JPJapanese Hebraist
- Toshihide Muraokab. 1960JPpolitician
- Alan Muraokab. 1962USactor and theatre director
- Hiroyuki Muraokab. 1968JPJapanese actor
- Nozomi Muraokab. 1970JPJapanese actress
- Takuya Muraokab. 1990JPJapanese association football player
- Momoka Muraokab. 1997JPJapanese para-alpine skier (1997-)
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 756 | #29,447 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 748 | #31,033 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 709 | #34,446 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 383 | #21,528 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #115,182 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Muraoka mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘village hill’; found throughout Japan, but not in large numbers. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Muraoka?
- A machine transcription gives /mʊɹɑˈoʊkə/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- In which country does Muraoka have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 748 people named Muraoka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled muraoka.
- Where is Muraoka most common?
- Muraoka is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 445 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Muraoka?
- In the United States, the national register counted 748 people named Muraoka in 2010, about 1 in 445 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/muraokaThe 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
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Muraoka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.