Kenjiro
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kənʒiɹoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kenjiro is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country.
- JPJapan≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 480K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 795K
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
- 87 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,900 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 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kenjiro 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 | ≈8,900 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Kenjiro | 87 |
| US United States | 130 | 1 in 2.6M | 129 | Kenjiro | 73 |
| NL Netherlands | 36 | 1 in 480K | 36 | — | 3 |
| IT Italy | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 3.9M | — | Kenjiro | 1 |
| PH Philippines | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 7.1M | — | Kenjiro | 10 |
| CL Chile | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | 1 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Kenjiro | 6 |
| SG Singapore | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 795K | — | Kenjiro | 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
- Yamakawa Kenjirōb. 1854JPJapanese physicist (1854-1931)
- Tokutomi Rokab. 1868JPnot in their usual nameJapanese writer (1868–1927)
- Kenjirō Takayanagib. 1899JPJapanese pioneer in the development of television
- Shōda Kenjirōb. 1902JPJapanese mathematician (1902-1977)
- Kenjirō Azumab. 1926ITJapanese–Italian sculptor (1926–2016)
- Kenjirō Ishimarub. 1953JPJapanese actor
- Kenjiro Okazakib. 1955JPJapanese visual artist, critic (1955-)
- Kenjiro Tsudab. 1971JPJapanese actor, voice actor and narrator
- Kenjirō Takeshitab. 1974JPJapanese mangaka
- Kenjiro Hatab. 1975JPJapanese manga artist
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 10 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 129 | #48,685 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 36 | #8,193 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 29 | #15,942 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1995 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 5 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2001 | 2 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1 | #48,685 |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Kenjiro?
- A machine transcription gives /kənʒiɹoʊ/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- Is Kenjiro a male or female name?
- Kenjiro 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 Kenjiro have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.9 thousand people named Kenjiro in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kenjiro.
- How common is the name Kenjiro?
- In the United States, the national register counted 130 people named Kenjiro in 2020, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Kenjiro?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kenjiroThe 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, “Kenjiro”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.