Kuramoto
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘(one who hves) near the storehouse’; there are three main variants of the name as written in characters, all with the same meaning
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kʊɹɑˈmoʊtoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kuramoto is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country.
- JPJapan≈1 in 8.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 351K
- CACanada≈1 in 412K
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
- 79 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘(one who hves) near the storehouse’; there are three main variants of the name as written in characters, all with the same meaning. All are found throughout Japan and on Okinawa island.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kuramoto 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 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | listed | Kuramoto | 79 |
| BR Brazil | 421 | 1 in 503K | 421 | — | — |
| US United States | 347 | 1 in 959K | 348 | Kuramoto | 69 |
| CA Canada | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 412K | — | Kuramoto | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Kuramoto | 1 |
| EE Estonia | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 351K | listed | — | 1 |
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). 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)
- Kuramoto Yōichib. 1879JPpolitician (1879-1942)
- Sō Kuramotob. 1935JPJapanese screenwriter
- Yoshiki Kuramotob. 1940JPJapanese physicist
- Tatsuhiko Kuramotob. 1946JPJapanese architect
- Koji Kuramotob. 1951JPJapanese judoka
- Yuhki Kuramotob. 1951JPJapanese musician
- Masahiro Kuramotob. 1955JPprofessional golfer
- Kazuhiro Kuramotob. 1958JPJapanese historian
- Sayako Kuramotob. 1983JPJapanese voice actress
- Takashi Kuramotob. 1984JPJapanese association football player
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 10 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 421 | #19,856 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 348 | #55,237 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 347 | #58,481 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 338 | #63,720 |
| JP Japan | Japanese Names (O'Neill, 1972) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Where does the name Kuramoto come from?
- ‘(one who hves) near the storehouse’; there are three main variants of the name as written in characters, all with the same meaning. All are found throughout Japan and on Okinawa island. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kuramoto?
- A machine transcription gives /kʊɹɑˈmoʊtoʊ/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- What does the name Kuramoto mean?
- Recorded meaning: ‘(one who hves) near the storehouse’; there are three main variants of the name as written in characters, all with the same meaning.
- In which country does Kuramoto have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Kuramoto in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kuramoto.
- How common is the name Kuramoto?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 421 people named Kuramoto, about 1 in 503 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kuramotoThe 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, “Kuramoto”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.