Hirose

surname · Latin script

Meaning: ‘wide strait’; a very common place name throughout Japan, variously written

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/hɪˈɹoʊseɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Hirose is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • JPJapan≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 636K
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 100K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Japan (inferred from the name graph)

≈65,000 people, est.

Sources
121 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Japan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

‘wide strait’; a very common place name throughout Japan, variously written. The surname is listed in the Shinsen shojiroku, but it is possible that not all bearers are related.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hirose 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.

Where Hirose is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
JP Japan#406≈65,000 est.≈1 in 1.9K—Hirose121
BR Brazil—7091 in 299K709——
US United States—5231 in 636K552Hirose101
CA Canada—≈120 est.≈1 in 327K—Hirose23
PE Peru—≈95 est.≈1 in 335K—Hirose9
EE Estonia—≈12 est.≈1 in 100Klisted—1

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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Hirose is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Hirosé

  • Portuguese surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Peru, United States, Argentina

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Hirosé

  • Thai surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, Laos

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written ฮิโรเซะ, ฮิโรเสะ, ฮิโรเซ่, ฮีโรเซ่, ฮิโรเซ

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Takeo Hirose, b. 1868Ryōhei Hirose, b. 1930Yoshinori Hirose, b. 1936Kōmi Hirose, b. 1966Jun Hirose, b. 1979Eriko Hirose, b. 1985Daisuke Hirose, b. 1991Alice Hirose, b. 1994Rikuto Hirose, b. 1995Suzu Hirose, b. 1998

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)

FormalHirose様Dear Hirose-san, (English)
Informalこんにちは、HiroseさんHi Hirose, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 15 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Hirose
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—709#12,479
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000552#37,835
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010523#41,579
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020490#46,793
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

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 Hirose come from?
‘wide strait’; a very common place name throughout Japan, variously written. The surname is listed in the Shinsen shojiroku, but it is possible that not all bearers are related. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Hirose?
A machine transcription gives /hɪˈɹoʊseɪ/ (IPA) for Japanese.
What does the name Hirose mean?
Recorded meaning: ‘wide strait’; a very common place name throughout Japan, variously written.
In which country does Hirose have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 65 thousand people named Hirose in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hirose.
How common is the name Hirose?
In Brazil, the national register counted 709 people named Hirose, about 1 in 299 thousand residents.
How common is Hirose compared with other names?
In Japan, Hirose is the 406th most common surname of 142,159 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Hirose” — the 406th most common surname in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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