Honda
loc · Latin script
Meaning: ‘original rice paddy’; variously written, common throughout Japan and the Ryukyu Islands
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/onda/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Honda is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Brazil.
- PTPortugal
- BRBrazil
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.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 115 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘original rice paddy’; variously written, common throughout Japan and the Ryukyu Islands. One daimyo family of Mikawa (now part of Aichi prefecture) is descended from the Fujiwara. Another family was samurai from Satsuma (now Kagoshima prefecture).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Honda counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 3.5K | Honda | 115 |
| PT Portugal | — | — | Honda | 10 |
| US United States | — | 2.2K | — | 81 |
| AR Argentina | — | 52 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 36 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 25 | — | 2 |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Honda is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, sling, slingshot
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Japanese car co.
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, A closed loop or eyelet at one end of a lariat or lasso, through which the other end of the rope is passed to form a much larger loop.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pmf, rack or railing on which something is supported or leans
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Hungarian, a Japanese automotive manufacturer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Honda Kōtarōb. 1870JPJapanese physicist and metallurgist (1870-1954)
- Sōichirō Hondab. 1906JPJapanese engineer and industrialist
- Ishirō Hondab. 1911JPJapanese filmmaker (1911–1993)
- Mike Hondab. 1941USAmerican politician
- Toshiyuki Hondab. 1957JPJapanese composer and saxophonist
- Yuka Hondab. 1961USJapanese musician
- Minako Hondab. 1967JPJapanese singer and actress (1967-2005)
- Keisuke Hondab. 1986JPJapanese association football player (born 1986)
- Hitomi Hondab. 2001JPJapanese singer and actress
- Tomoru Hondab. 2001JPJapanese swimmer
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 29 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3.5K | #3,017 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.2K | #13,911 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.1K | #13,451 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,324 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 52 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 36 | #29,987 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 25 | #31,192 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Honda come from?
- ‘original rice paddy’; variously written, common throughout Japan and the Ryukyu Islands. One daimyo family of Mikawa (now part of Aichi prefecture) is descended from the Fujiwara. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Honda?
- A machine transcription gives /onda/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Honda mean?
- Recorded meaning: ‘original rice paddy’; variously written, common throughout Japan and the Ryukyu Islands.
- In which country does Honda have the most bearers?
- Honda is most frequently recorded in Brazil, where it is most often spelled honda.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hondaThe 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, “Honda”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.