Shimo
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Japanese: Rōmaji transcription of しも
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Siseministeerium, 2023
Shimo is a female given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Japan.
- JPJapan
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. 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
- 41 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Rōmaji transcription of しも
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Shimo is read
(measured from records)Shimo is one spelling over 3 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.
- Arabic80%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Shimo in Arabic.
- Japanese10%
Rōmaji transcription of しも
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Swahili6.6%
hole, pit
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Shimo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JP Japan | — | — | Shimo | 41 |
| US United States | — | 104 | Shimo | 30 |
| BR Brazil | — | 35 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 1 | — | 1 |
| EE Estonia | — | listed | — | — |
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 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); the ee-siseministeerium-registry 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)- Reijirō Shimob. 1937JPJapanese writer
- Hirotoshi Shimob. 1941JPJapanese historian
- Satoshi Shimob. 1941JPJapanese athletics competitor
- Fumihiko Shimob. 1962JPJapanese screenwriter
- Hitoshi Shimob. 1972JPJapanese athletics competitor
- Shunsuke Shimob. 1981JPJapanese athletics competitor
- Yusuke ShimoUSresearcher
- Yasushi Shimoresearcher
- Alexandra ShimoCACanadian writer
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Shimo mean, and where does it come from?
- Rōmaji transcription of しも Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Shimo a male or female name?
- Shimo is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Shimo have the most bearers?
- Shimo is most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is most often spelled shimo.
What do you want to know about Shimo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shimoThe 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, “Shimo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.