Kawada
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kɑwɑdə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kawada is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country.
- JPJapan≈1 in 5.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 230K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 473K
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)
- Sources
- 98 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈22,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kawada 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JP Japan | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | listed | Kawada | 98 |
| US United States | 289 | 1 in 1.2M | 310 | Kawada | 78 |
| IN India | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 11M | 9 | Kawada | 5 |
| BR Brazil | 85 | 1 in 2.5M | 85 | — | — |
| MY Malaysia | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 473K | — | Kawada | 5 |
| CA Canada | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 917K | — | Kawada | 8 |
| PY Paraguay | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 230K | — | Kawada | 7 |
| SG Singapore | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 793K | — | Kawada | 7 |
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: the japanese-names-oneill-1972 register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the in-instate-surnames-bystate register. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kawada Shōryōb. 1824painter (1824-1898)
- Kawada Koichirōb. 1836JPJapanese banker
- Jun Kawadab. 1882JPJapanese poet
- Kenji Kawadab. 1900JPJapanese politician (1900-1995)
- Toshiaki Kawadab. 1963JPJapanese professional wrestler
- Atsuko Kawadab. 1965JPJapanese actress, screenwriter, singer (1965-)
- Shinji Kawadab. 1971JPJapanese voice actor
- Junko Kawadab. 1974JPJapanese former singer and model
- Ryuhei Kawadab. 1976JPJapanese politician
- Mami Kawadab. 1980JPJapanese pop singer
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 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 310 | #60,706 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 289 | #68,122 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 273 | #76,032 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 85 | #71,518 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 9 | #101,667 |
| JP Japan | Japanese Names (O'Neill, 1972) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Kawada?
- A machine transcription gives /kɑwɑdə/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- In which country does Kawada have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Kawada in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kawada.
- How common is the name Kawada?
- In the United States, the national register counted 289 people named Kawada in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Kawada?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kawadaThe 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, “Kawada”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.