Kokichi

given name · Latin script

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

Kokichi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • JPJapan≈1 in 144K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CLChile≈1 in 7M
  • USUnited States≈1 in 9.9M

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Japan (inferred from the name graph)

≈870 people, est.

Sources
39 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 144K (inferred from the name graph)

Japan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

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

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kokichi 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 Kokichi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
JP Japan≈870 est.≈1 in 144KKokichi39
US United States≈33 est.≈1 in 9.9MKokichi39
BR Brazil≈8 est.≈1 in 27MKokichi10
CL Chile≈3 est.≈1 in 7MKokichi10
CA Canada≈2 est.≈1 in 23MKokichi2

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.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kokichi is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia

    Also written Kōkichi

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Kôkichi, Kōkichi

  • Russian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia

    Also written Кокичи, Кокити

14 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Mikimoto Kokichi, b. 1858Kokichi Kurosaki, b. 1886Kōkichi Kakuta, b. 1896Kōkichi Takada, b. 1911Kōkichi Uchide, b. 1911Kokichi Shimoinaba, b. 1926Kōkichi Shōji, b. 1942Kōkichi Sugihara, b. 1948Kōkichi Shimizu, b. 1959Kokichi Kimura, b. 1961

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)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Kokichi under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Is Kokichi a male or female name?
Kokichi 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 Kokichi have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 871 people named Kokichi in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kokichi.
How common is the name Kokichi?
Mondonomo estimates about 870 people in Japan have Kokichi as their first given name, about 1 in 144 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

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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, “Kokichi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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