Kadota

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

Kadota is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 1.3M(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 1.9M
  • ARArgentina1 in 3.8M

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 Kadota 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.

United States (measured from records)

176 people, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
10 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.3M (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KadotaLatin(measured from records)
คาโดตะThai(measured from records)

Locally spelled คาโดตะ in TH Thailand.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kadota 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 Kadota is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1761 in 1.9M176—1
BR Brazil1601 in 1.3M160——
TH Thailand≈14 est.≈1 in 5.1M—คาโดตะ10
AR Argentina121 in 3.8M12——
EE Estonia——listed——

176 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)

Kadota is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Finnish, to disappear, vanish, fade

    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)

1940196019802000Hiromitsu Kadota, b. 1948Yuichi Kadota, b. 1949Matsuri Kadota, b. 1987Fairouz Ai, b. 1993

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)

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

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Kadota
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010176#102,197
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020165#113,026
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000164#101,654
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—160#44,032
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—12—
US United Stateswru 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

How do you pronounce Kadota?
A machine transcription gives /kɑdoʊtə/ (IPA) for Japanese.
In which country does Kadota have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 176 people named Kadota, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Kadota most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kadota is densest in Brazil — about 1 in 1.3 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Kadota?
In the United States, the national register counted 176 people named Kadota in 2010, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kadota

The 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, “Kadota”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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