Fukui
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Fukui 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 福井 (Fukui).
- BRBrazil1 in 569K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 659K
- BEBelgium1 in 3.9M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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)
- Record sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- 1 in 569K (inferred from the name graph)
505 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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 福井 (Fukui).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Fukui is found
(measured from records)Fukui 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 | 505 | 1 in 659K | 522 | Fukui | 9 |
| BR Brazil | 372 | 1 in 569K | 372 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 9 | 1 in 5.6M | 9 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 3 | 1 in 3.9M | 3 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
505 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Fukui 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 Latvian, pilsēta Japānā ("Fukui"), Honsju salas rietumos, prefektūras administratīvais centrs, 266800 iedzīvotāju (2010. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Kenichi Fukuib. 1918JPJapanese chemist (1918–1998)
- Toshihiko Fukuib. 1935JPJapanese economist and banker
- Mai Fukuib. 1984JPJapanese singer and songwriter (1984-)
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fukui mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Japanese 福井 (Fukui). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Fukui?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 505 people named Fukui, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fukui. After it come Brazil, Spain, Belgium and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Fukui most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Fukui is densest in Brazil — about 1 in 569 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Fukui?
- In the United States, the national register counted 505 people named Fukui in 2010, about 1 in 659 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Fukui?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fukuiThe 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, “Fukui”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.