Komatsu

• Portuguese:/komɐtsu/○(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Komatsu is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• Japanese70%

  ‘small pine tree’; found mostly in west-central Japan, the island of Shikoku, and the Ryukyu Islands; an alternate reading found farther east is Omatsu. Several samurai families of various hneages took this surname from any of the various villages of this name.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• English16%

  Japanese manufacturing co.

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• Portuguese7.8%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Komatsu in Portuguese.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Komatsu is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Thai surname12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Thailand

  Also written โคมัตซุ, โคมัตซึ, โคมะซึ, โคมัทสุ, โคมัตสุ

44 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.

• Sakyō Komatsub. 1931JPJapanese writer (1931–2011)
• Mikako Komatsub. 1988JPJapanese actress, voice actress and singer
• Nana Komatsub. 1996JPJapanese actress and model

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).

15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Komatsu mean, and where does it come from?

‘small pine tree’; found mostly in west-central Japan, the island of Shikoku, and the Ryukyu Islands; an alternate reading found farther east is Omatsu. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.

How do you pronounce Komatsu?

In Portuguese /komɐtsu/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

Which countries have the most people with the surname Komatsu?

In Brazil, the national register counted about 971 people named Komatsu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled komatsu. After it come United States, Argentina, Spain and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.

Where is Komatsu most common?

Komatsu is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 218 thousand people carrying it.

How common is the name Komatsu?

In Brazil, the national register counted 971 people named Komatsu, about 1 in 218 thousand residents.