Kurihara
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˌkuɹɪˈhɑɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kurihara is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Japanese 栗原 (Kurihara).
- USUnited States1 in 597K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 577K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 840K
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
- 138 (measured from records)
- 1 in 577K (inferred from the name graph)
557 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Japanese 栗原 (Kurihara).
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kurihara 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 557 | 1 in 597K | 566 | Kurihara | 138 |
| BR Brazil | 367 | 1 in 577K | 367 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 10 | 1 in 840K | 10 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 9 | 1 in 5.6M | 9 | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | 7 | 1 in 5.5M | 5 | — | — |
557 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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
- Sadako Kuriharab. 1913JPJapanese poet
- Komaki Kuriharab. 1945JPactress
- Harumi Kuriharab. 1947JPJapanese chef
- Kiyoshiro Imawanob. 1951JPnot in their usual nameJapanese actor-singer
- Takeshi Kuriharab. 1951JPJapanese physician and writer
- Mamoru Kuriharab. 1972JPJapanese mangaka
- Katsushi Kuriharab. 1977JPJapanese association football player
- Yuzo Kuriharab. 1983JPJapanese association football player
- Megumi Kuriharab. 1984JPJapanese volleyball player
- Louis Kuriharab. 1994JPJapanese/British model, TV personality, and actor
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 15 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 566 | #37,094 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 557 | #39,486 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 517 | #44,679 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 367 | #22,342 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 10 | #60,931 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 9 | #126,713 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #202,041 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #355,421 |
| 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
- What does the name Kurihara mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Japanese 栗原 (Kurihara). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Kurihara?
- A machine transcription gives /ˌkuɹɪˈhɑɹə/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- In which country does Kurihara have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 557 people named Kurihara, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kurihara.
- Where is Kurihara most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kurihara is densest in Brazil — about 1 in 577 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kurihara?
- In the United States, the national register counted 557 people named Kurihara in 2010, about 1 in 597 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kuriharaThe 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, “Kurihara”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.