Kurata
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kurata is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: there are two forms of this name, both written with characters meaning ‘storehouse’ and ‘ricepaddy’.
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 1.2M
- PLPoland1 in 3.8M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 143 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1M (inferred from the name graph)
305 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
there are two forms of this name, both written with characters meaning ‘storehouse’ and ‘ricepaddy’. The more frequent version is found_ mainly in western Honshu and the Kyoto-Osaka area, and its bearers are descended from the Abel clan through the Sasaki family.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kurata 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.
305 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kurata is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, to muddy, soil
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Velns
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Irbe
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Fumindo Kuratab. 1905JPJapanese screenwriter
- Yasuaki Kuratab. 1946JPJapanese actor
- Yasuharu Kuratab. 1963JPJapanese association football player and manager
- Tetsuo Kuratab. 1968JPJapanese television, stage and film actor and restaurateur
- Hideyuki Kuratab. 1968JPJapanese novelist, manga and anime script writer
- Masayo Kuratab. 1969JPJapanese voice actress
- Mayumi Kuratab. 1971JPJapanese mangaka
- Shigeki Kuratab. 1972JPJapanese association football player
- Mariya Kuratab. 1984JPJapanese seiyū
- Shū Kuratab. 1988JPJapanese 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 317 | #59,611 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 311 | #68,212 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 305 | #65,066 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 180 | #40,060 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #200,069 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #202,010 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #202,292 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Kurata mean, and where does it come from?
- there are two forms of this name, both written with characters meaning ‘storehouse’ and ‘ricepaddy’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Kurata have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 305 people named Kurata, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kurata.
- Where is Kurata most common?
- Kurata is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kurata?
- In the United States, the national register counted 305 people named Kurata in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kurataThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Kurata”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.