Kawata

surname · Latin script

Meaning: ‘rice paddy near the river’; the version of this name written with the more common character for ‘river’ is found in the Tokyo and Osaka areas; the version with the traditional character for ‘river’ i

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

Kawata is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Japan.

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  • JPJapan
  • BRBrazil
  • USUnited States

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.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

‘rice paddy near the river’; the version of this name written with the more common character for ‘river’ is found in the Tokyo and Osaka areas; the version with the traditional character for ‘river’ is found mostly in western Japan and the RyukyO Islands.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

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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)

Kawata 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 Cebuano, imperative of kawat

    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)

19201940196019802000Hiroshi Kawata, b. 1931Kawata Ken, b. 1937Jun'ichi Kawata, b. 1948Satoshi Kawata, b. 1951Taeko Kawata, b. 1965Yoshimasa Kawata, b. 1980Hiromi Kawata, b. 1983Kohei Kawata, b. 1987Kazuki Kawata, b. 1990

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 15 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Kawata
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—436#19,230
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000330#57,705
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010321#62,359
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020314#67,683
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—21—
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—14#14,128
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20087#89,918
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20264—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20264—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—4#226,982
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—4#224,700
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

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

What does the name Kawata mean, and where does it come from?
‘rice paddy near the river’; the version of this name written with the more common character for ‘river’ is found in the Tokyo and Osaka areas; the version with the traditional character for ‘river’ i… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Kawata have the most bearers?
Kawata is most frequently recorded in Japan.

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About this data

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kawata”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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