Nakasone
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Japanese: found in the Ryukyu Islands, usually written with characters for ‘center’, ‘monk’, and ‘root’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/nakasone/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Nakasone is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 201K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 291K
- BRBrazil1 in 580K
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 Nakasone 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
- 9 (measured from records)
- 1 in 201K (inferred from the name graph)
1,142 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)found in the Ryukyu Islands, usually written with characters for ‘center’, ‘monk’, and ‘root’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Nakasone is read
(measured from records)Nakasone is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English41%
Yasuhiro, prime minister, Japan
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Spanish21%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nakasone in Spanish.
- Japanese19%
found in the Ryukyu Islands, usually written with characters for ‘center’, ‘monk’, and ‘root’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
- Portuguese8.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nakasone in Portuguese.
- Swahili5.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nakasone in Swahili.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nakasone 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.
1,142 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); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Yasuhiro Nakasoneb. 1918JPJapanese politician (1918–2019)
- Tsutako Nakasoneb. 1921JP30 Oct 1921 - certain 7 Nov 2012
- Masao Nakasoneb. 1935JPJapanese actor and seiyū
- Hirofumi Nakasoneb. 1945JPJapanese politician
- Karen K. Nakasoneb. 1953USbotanist, mycologist
- Keith Nakasoneb. 1956USAmerican judoka
- Paul M. Nakasoneb. 1963USUnited States Army general
- Rino Nakasoneb. 1979JPJapanese choreographer
- Yasutaka Nakasoneb. 1982JPJapanese 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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #22,516 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #23,720 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #22,196 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 365 | #22,445 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 226 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 15 | #97,717 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #112,568 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #233,740 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #370,446 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Nakasone mean, and where does it come from?
- found in the Ryukyu Islands, usually written with characters for ‘center’, ‘monk’, and ‘root’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Nakasone?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /nakasone/; in Portuguese /nɐkɐsune/; in Swahili /nakɑsone/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Nakasone have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Nakasone, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nakasone.
- Where is Nakasone most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nakasone is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 201 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nakasone?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,142 people named Nakasone in 2010, about 1 in 291 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Nakasone?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nakasoneThe 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, “Nakasone”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.