Suzuki
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Suzuki is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country, where it is the 13th most common surname. In English, recorded as The second most common Japanese surname from Japanese.
- JPJapan≈1 in 169(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 63K
- BRBrazil1 in 27K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Japan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 295 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 169 (inferred from the name graph)
≈740,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a Japanese automotive manufacturer
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Suzuki is read(measured from records)
Suzuki 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.
- Japanese73%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Suzuki in Japanese.
- English12%
Japanese name, probably based on Japanese susuki ‘pampas grass’.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Japanese motor vehicle co.; pers.
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
method of music instruction
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The second most common Japanese surname from Japanese.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese8.1%
a Japanese automotive manufacturer
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Suzuki 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 | #13 | ≈740,000 est. | ≈1 in 169 | listed | Suzuki | 224 |
| BR Brazil | — | 7,783 | 1 in 27K | 7.8K | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | 5,274 | 1 in 63K | 5.3K | Suzuki | 295 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Suzuki | 59 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 143K | — | Suzuki | 33 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Suzuki | 35 |
| FI Finland | — | 143 | 1 in 39K | 143 | — | 10 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 39K | listed | — | 7 |
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: the japanese-names-oneill-1972 register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Suzuki 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 Croatian, japanski znanstvenik, vodeći autoritet za zen budizam i budizam na Zapadu; napisao mnogo knjiga o zenu i njegovu odnosu spram drugih vjera
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Suzuki Harunobub. 1725JPJapanese printmaker
- Kantaro Suzukib. 1868JP29th Prime Minister of Japan (1868-1948)
- D. T. Suzukib. 1870JPJapanese Buddhist scholar, Doctor of Letters (1870–1966)
- Zenko Suzukib. 1911JPPrime Minister of Japan (1911-2004)
- Akira Suzukib. 1930JPJapanese chemist (1930 - )
- David Suzukib. 1936CACanadian popular scientist and environmental activist
- Toshio Suzukib. 1948JPJapanese film producer
- Ichiro Suzukib. 1973JPJapanese baseball player (born 1973)
- Severn Cullis-Suzukib. 1979CAenvironmental activist and writer
- Anne Suzukib. 1987JPJapanese voice actress
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 38 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 7.8K | #1,585 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.3K | #6,438 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.3K | #6,244 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.2K | #6,045 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 143 | #9,706 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 26 | — |
| JP Japan | Japanese Names (O'Neill, 1972) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Where does the name Suzuki come from?
- a Japanese automotive manufacturer Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Suzuki mean?
- In English, The second most common Japanese surname from Japanese.
- In which country does Suzuki have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 741 thousand people named Suzuki in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled suzuki.
- How common is the name Suzuki?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 7,783 people named Suzuki, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
- How common is Suzuki compared with other names?
- In Japan, Suzuki is the 13th most common surname of 142,159 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/suzukiThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Suzuki” — the 13th most common surname in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.