Maeno
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/məɛnoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Maeno is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country.
- JPJapan≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- KEKenya≈1 in 2.3M
- BRBrazil1 in 2.6M
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
- 63 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maeno 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 | ≈9,600 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Maeno | 63 |
| BR Brazil | 83 | 1 in 2.6M | 83 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 5.1M | listed | Maeno | 41 |
| KE Kenya | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | listed | — | — |
| PH Philippines | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 7.3M | — | Maeno | 8 |
| CA Canada | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | — | Maeno | 6 |
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 us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; 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)
- Maeno Nagayasub. 1528JPsamurai
- Maeno Ryōtakub. 1723JPJapanese physician
- Naoaki Maenob. 1920JPJapanese teacher (1920-1998)
- Masaru Maenob. 1932JPJapanese architect
- Yōko Maenob. 1948JPJapanese singer (1948-1988)
- Yoshihiko Maenob. 1953JPJapanese philosopher
- Kenta Maenob. 1979JPJapanese singer-songwriter
- Tomoaki Maenob. 1982JPJapanese voice actor
- Takanori Maenob. 1988JPJapanese association football player
- Rumie Maenob. 1992JPJapanese actress
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 7 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 83 | #72,772 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Maeno?
- A machine transcription gives /məɛnoʊ/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- In which country does Maeno have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.6 thousand people named Maeno in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maeno.
- How common is the name Maeno?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 83 people named Maeno, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Maeno?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maenoThe 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, “Maeno”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.