Sawako
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Sawako is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country.
- JPJapan≈1 in 6.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.8M
- PLPoland1 in 19M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Japan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 84 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sawako 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JP Japan | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Sawako | 84 |
| US United States | 187 | 1 in 1.8M | 187 | Sawako | 83 |
| BR Brazil | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 6.3M | — | Sawako | 17 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | — | Sawako | 9 |
| MA Morocco | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | — | Sawako | 4 |
| SG Singapore | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Sawako | 6 |
| IE Ireland | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 992K | — | Sawako | 4 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)- Sawako Yagib. 1893JPJapanese translator
- Sawako Ariyoshib. 1931JPJapanese writer and novelist (1931–1984)
- Sawako Tabatab. 1938JPJapanese literary scholar
- Sawako Nomab. 1943JPJapanese publisher (1943-2011)
- Sawako Agawab. 1953JPJapanese author and TV personality
- Sawako Natorib. 1973JPJapanese novelist
- Sawako Naitob. 1984JPJapanese politician
- Sawako Watanabeb. 1984JPJapanese announcer
- Sawako Hatab. 1988JPJapanese singer and voice actress
- Sawako Shimonob. 1988JPJapanese professional wrestler
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 187 | #40,051 |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- Is Sawako a male or female name?
- Sawako is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Sawako have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Sawako in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sawako.
- How common is the name Sawako?
- In the United States, the national register counted 187 people named Sawako in 2020, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
What do you want to know about Sawako?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sawakoThe 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, “Sawako”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.