Minowa
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Minowa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 2.1M(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 19M
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 30 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.1M (inferred from the name graph)
103 people
Highest-authority source
Brazil
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 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Minowa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 103 | 1 in 2.1M | 103 | Minowa | 30 |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Minowa | 12 |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Minowa | 2 |
| EC Ecuador | — | — | 1 | — | — |
103 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024). 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)
- Minowa Kanaeb. 1839JPJapanese politician
- Noboru Minowab. 1924JPJapanese politician (1924-2006)
- Sachiyo Minowab. 1942JPJapanese politician and lawyer
- Yutaka Minowab. 1965JPJapanese animator
- Yoshinobu Minowab. 1976JPJapanese association football player
- Ikuhisa Minowab. 1976JPJapanese professional wrestler
- Haruka Minowab. 1980JPJapanese owarai tarento and tarento
- Kosuke Minowab. 1985JPJapanese editor and businessman (1985-)
- Kentarō Minowab. 1987JPJapanese actor
- Moeka Minowab. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 103 | #61,986 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #367,110 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- In which country does Minowa have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 103 people named Minowa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled minowa.
- Where is Minowa most common?
- Minowa is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.1 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Minowa?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 103 people named Minowa, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Minowa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/minowaThe 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, “Minowa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.