Fukushima
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Fukushima (a city and prefecture of Japan)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/fukuˈʃimə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fukushima is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 4Kas Fook(inferred from the name graph)
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 15Kas Fook
- SGSingapore≈1 in 15Kas Fook
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 Fukushima 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.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 81 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,200 named Fook, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est., as Fook
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Fook in MY Malaysia, US United States, SG Singapore and 4 more.
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)
Fukushima (a city and prefecture of Japan)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fukushima 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #431 | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Fook | 80 |
| US United States | — | 4,515as Phuc | 1 in 74K | 5.3K | Fook | 81 |
| CN China | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 447K | — | Fook | 14 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 103K | — | Fook | 15 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 264K | — | Fook | 1 |
| HK Hong Kong | #570 | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Fook | 25 |
| SG Singapore | #930 | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Fook | 55 |
| SE Sweden | — | 157as Phuc | 1 in 65K | 157 | — | 1 |
| IS Iceland | — | 6as Phuc | 1 in 58K | 6 | — | — |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
- Fukushima Masanorib. 1561JPdaimyo who served as lord of the Hiroshima Domain
- Fukushima Yasumasab. 1852JPJapanese general (1852-1919)
- Kazuo Fukushimab. 1930JPJapanese composer and musicologist (1930–2023)
- Akira Fukushimab. 1936JPJapanese medical scientist, psychiatrist (1936-2022)
- Takanori Fukushimab. 1942JPJapanese neurosurgeon (1942–2024)
- Mizuho Fukushimab. 1955JPJapanese politician
- Yutaka Fukushimab. 1958JPJapanese politician
- Nobuyuki Fukushimab. 1970JPpolitician
- Haruka Fukushimab. 1973JPJapanese manga artist
- Rila Fukushimab. 1989JPJapanese model and 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,432 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1K | #23,594 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 984 | #26,162 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 10 | #40,178 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname 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
- What does the name Fukushima mean, and where does it come from?
- Fukushima (a city and prefecture of Japan) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Fukushima?
- A machine transcription gives /fukuˈʃimə/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- In which country does Fukushima have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.2 thousand people named Fook in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Fukushima?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,515 people named Phuc in 2020, about 1 in 74 thousand residents.
- How common is Fukushima compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Fukushima is the 431st most common given name of 388,685 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Fukushima?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fukushimaThe 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, “Fukushima” — the 431st most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.