Asanuma
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/əsɑnumə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Asanuma is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 1.7M(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
- USUnited States1 in 3.3M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 3 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.7M (inferred from the name graph)
126 people
recorded for this name
Reference-verified
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
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)
Asanuma 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 | 126 | 1 in 1.7M | 126 | — | — |
| US United States | 101 | 1 in 3.3M | 101 | Asanuma | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
| PW Palau | — | — | 533 | — | — |
| MN Mongolia | — | — | listed | — | — |
126 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: This page discusses Palauan surnames, highlighting their cultural significance and frequency, published by the National; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; 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)
- Yoshio Asanumab. 1891JPJapanese baseball player
- Inejirō Asanumab. 1898JPJapanese politician (1898–1980)
- Kyōko Asanumab. 1904JPJapanese politician
- Michio Asanumab. 1915JPJapanese politician
- Hajime Asanumab. 1924JPJapanese shogi player (1924-2011)
- Mari Asanumab. 1961JPJapanese figure skater
- Tatsuya Asanumab. 1970JPJapanese association football player
- Reiko Asanumab. 1973JPJapanese actress
- Shintarō Asanumab. 1976JPJapanese voice actor
- Toshinori Asanumab. 1989JPbaseball player
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 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 126 | #53,116 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 101 | #159,712 |
| 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
- How do you pronounce Asanuma?
- A machine transcription gives /əsɑnumə/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- In which country does Asanuma have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 126 people named Asanuma, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Asanuma most common?
- Asanuma is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.7 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Asanuma?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 126 people named Asanuma, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Asanuma?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/asanumaThe 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, “Asanuma”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.