Hirano
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘flat (or peaceful) field’; a common topographic and habitational name throughout Japan and the RyukyO Islands
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/hɪˈɹɑnoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hirano is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Japan.
- JPJapan
- BRBrazil
- USUnited States
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. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘flat (or peaceful) field’; a common topographic and habitational name throughout Japan and the RyukyO Islands. One daimyo family descended from the ancient Kiyowara clan.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
- JPJapan
- USUnited States
- BRBrazil
- PEPeru
- CACanada
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- Toshio Hiranob. 1947JPJapanese immunologist
- Hirofumi Hiranob. 1949JPJapanese politician
- Toshiki Hiranob. 1953JPJapanese anime director, animator and character designer
- Masato Hiranob. 1955JPJapanese voice actor
- Fumi Hiranob. 1955JPJapanese actress, voice actress, singer and essayist
- Kouta Hiranob. 1973JPJapanese manga artist
- Nora Hiranob. 1978JPJapanese owarai tarento
- Sayaka Hiranob. 1985JPJapanese table tennis player
- Aya Hiranob. 1987JPJapanese voice actress and singer
- Ayumu Hiranob. 1998JPJapanese snowboarder
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 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,080 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #21,848 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 993 | #25,954 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 973 | #9,504 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #40,169 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 20 | #36,564 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 15 | #97,717 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 9 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 9 | #78,460 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 9 | #142,702 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 5 | #54,624 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Where does the name Hirano come from?
- ‘flat (or peaceful) field’; a common topographic and habitational name throughout Japan and the RyukyO Islands. One daimyo family descended from the ancient Kiyowara clan. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hirano?
- A machine transcription gives /hɪˈɹɑnoʊ/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- What does the name Hirano mean?
- Recorded meaning: ‘flat (or peaceful) field’; a common topographic and habitational name throughout Japan and the RyukyO Islands.
- In which country does Hirano have the most bearers?
- Hirano is most frequently recorded in Japan.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hiranoThe 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, “Hirano”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.