Hirata
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hirata is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Japan. Recorded meaning: ‘peaceful rice paddy’; there are several families, descended from the Taira, Sasaki, and Sakanoue clans.
- JPJapan
- BRBrazil
- MXMexico
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)
‘peaceful rice paddy’; there are several families, descended from the Taira, Sasaki, and Sakanoue clans. The family has several branches of its own. It is listed in the Shinsen shojiroku, and is found throughout Japan and in the RyukyO Islands.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
- JPJapan
- USUnited States
- BRBrazil
- MXMexico
- PEPeru
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)
- Hirata Atsutaneb. 1776JPconventionally ranked as one of the four great men of kokugaku studies, and one of the most significant theologians of the Shintō religion
- Akihiko Hiratab. 1927JPJapanese actor (1927-1984)
- Hiroshi Hiratab. 1937JPJapanese manga artist (1937-2021)
- Toshio Hiratab. 1938JPJapanese animation director (1938-2014)
- Koichi Hiratab. 1948JPJapanese politician
- Mitsuru Hiratab. 1953JPJapanese actor
- Yasuyuki Hiratab. 1958JPJapanese actor and seiyū
- Hirata Orizab. 1962JPJapanese writer and director
- Akihisa Hiratab. 1971JPJapanese Architect (1971-)
- Ryosuke Hiratab. 1988JPbaseball 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 4.4K | #2,474 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #17,087 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.5K | #18,614 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,136 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 20 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 16 | #94,489 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 7 | #6,532 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 6 | #50,028 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #198,452 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3 | #75,867 |
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 Hirata come from?
- ‘peaceful rice paddy’; there are several families, descended from the Taira, Sasaki, and Sakanoue clans. The family has several branches of its own. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Hirata mean?
- Recorded meaning: ‘peaceful rice paddy’; there are several families, descended from the Taira, Sasaki, and Sakanoue clans.
- In which country does Hirata have the most bearers?
- Hirata is most frequently recorded in Japan.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hirataThe 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, “Hirata”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.