Yamagishi
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries
Yamagishi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Japanese 山岸. Yamagishi is also written ยามาก in Thai.
- BRBrazil1 in 108Kas Yamaguchi(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 114Kas Yamaguchi
- FIFinland1 in 119Kas Yamaguchi
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Yamagishi itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- 1 in 108K (inferred from the name graph)
2,912 named Yamaguchi, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil, as Yamaguchi
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Yamagishi in other scripts: Latin and Thai
(measured from records)Locally spelled Yamaguchi in US United States, TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Japanese 山岸.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Yamagishi is found
(measured from records)Yamagishi 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,912as Yamaguchi | 1 in 114K | 2.9K | Yamaguchi | 7 |
| BR Brazil | 1,956as Yamaguchi | 1 in 108K | 2K | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 134as Yamaguchi | 1 in 339K | 134 | — | — |
| TH Thailand | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 991K | register #515,711 | Yamaguchi | 33 |
| ES Spain | 51as Yamaguchi | 1 in 981K | 51 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 47as Yamaguchi | 1 in 119K | 47 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 45as Yamaguchi | 1 in 260K | 45 | — | 1 |
2,912 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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)- Satoshi Yamagishib. 1939JPJapanese ornithologist
- Ryōko Yamagishib. 1947JPJapanese mangaka
- Norihiro Yamagishib. 1978JPJapanese association football player
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Yamagishi mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Japanese 山岸. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Yamagishi?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.9 thousand people named Yamaguchi, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Brazil, Argentina, Thailand and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Yamagishi most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Yamagishi itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Brazil's: the national register counts about 1 in 108 thousand people named Yamaguchi.
- How common is the name Yamagishi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,912 people named Yamaguchi in 2010, about 1 in 114 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Yamagishi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yamagishiThe 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, “Yamagishi” — ranked 10273rd in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.