Aoyama
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˌaʊˈjɑmə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Aoyama is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Japanese 青山 (Aoyama).
- BRBrazil1 in 444K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 927K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
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 Aoyama itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- 1 in 444K (inferred from the name graph)
477 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brazil
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)
Borrowed from Japanese 青山 (Aoyama).
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aoyama 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 477 | 1 in 444K | 477 | — | — |
| US United States | 359 | 1 in 927K | 383 | — | 1 |
| TH Thailand | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 4.6M | #813,918 | Aoyama | 17 |
| ES Spain | 11 | 1 in 4.5M | 11 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 4 | 1 in 2.9M | 4 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
477 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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)
- Gosho Aoyamab. 1963JPJapanese manga artist
- Shinji Aoyamab. 1964JPJapanese film director and novelist (1964-2022)
- Nanae Aoyamab. 1983JPJapanese novelist
- Yurika Aoyamab. 1983JPJapanese voice actress
- Toshihiro Aoyamab. 1986JPJapanese association football player
- Thelma Aoyamab. 1987JPJapanese pop and R&B singer
- Shuko Aoyamab. 1987JPJapanese tennis player
- Hikaru Aoyamab. 1993JPJapanese gravure idol and tarento
- Yoshino Aoyamab. 1996JPJapanese voice actress and singer
- Yukari AoyamaJPJapanese seiyū
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)
Attested in 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 477 | #17,806 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 383 | #57,414 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 359 | #56,836 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 341 | #56,120 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 11 | #114,632 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #113,521 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Aoyama mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Japanese 青山 (Aoyama). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Aoyama?
- A machine transcription gives /ˌaʊˈjɑmə/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- In which country does Aoyama have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 477 people named Aoyama, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Aoyama most common?
- Aoyama is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 444 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Aoyama?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 477 people named Aoyama, about 1 in 444 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Aoyama?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aoyamaThe 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, “Aoyama”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.