Katsuya
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɑtsujɑ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Katsuya is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Japan.
- JPJapan
- USUnited States
- DEGermany
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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)
- Katsuya Nomurab. 1935JPJapanese professional baseball player, coach, baseball critic, baseball commentator (1935-2020)
- Katsuya Kobayashib. 1941JPJapanese radio personality, narrator, talent, actor
- Katsuya Kobayashib. 1943JP1943- Japanese actor
- Katsuya Okadab. 1953JPJapanese politician (born 1953)
- Katsuya Ugab. 1955JPJapanese legal scholar and judge
- Katsuya Matsumurab. 1963JPJapanese film director
- Katsuya Kondōb. 1963JPJapanese manga artist
- Katsuya Onizukab. 1970JPJapanese boxer
- Katsuya Maigumab. 1987JPJapanese actor (1987-)
- Katsuya Kakunakab. 1987JPJapanese baseball 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 109 | #52,133 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #16,627 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 5 | #17,497 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1952 | 4 | — |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Katsuya?
- A machine transcription gives /kɑtsujɑ/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- Is Katsuya a male or female name?
- Katsuya is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Katsuya have the most bearers?
- Katsuya is most frequently recorded in Japan.
What do you want to know about Katsuya?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/katsuyaThe 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, “Katsuya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.