Mishima
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A slip inlay style of ceramic pottery adopted from Korea, probably in the 16th century
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mʲɪʃɪmə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mishima is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 868K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M
- ARArgentina1 in 3M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mishima itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- 1 in 868K (inferred from the name graph)
244 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Мисима in RU Russia.
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)
A slip inlay style of ceramic pottery adopted from Korea, probably in the 16th century.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mishima 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 | 244 | 1 in 868K | 244 | — | — |
| US United States | 243 | 1 in 1.4M | 269 | Mishima | 6 |
| AR Argentina | 15 | 1 in 3M | 15 | — | — |
| RU Russia | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 29M | — | Мисима | 14 |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
244 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mishima is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Croatian, japanski književnik, povezuje japansku tradiciju i europske utjecaje, piše o suvremenim moralnim dilemama; kao vođa nacionalističke paramilitarne grupe počinio ritualno samoubojstvo
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- 三島弥彦b. 1886JPnot in their usual nameJapanese sprinter (1886–1954)
- Michiharu Mishimab. 1897JPFounder of the Boy Scouts of Japan
- Masao Mishimab. 1906JPJapanese actor (1906-1973)
- Yukio Mishimab. 1925JPJapanese author (1925–1970)
- Yuriko Mishimab. 1940JPJapanese actress
- Sanae Mishimab. 1957JPJapanese association football player
- Yukiko Mishimab. 1969JPfilm director
- Kohei Mishimab. 1987JPJapanese association football player
- Kurone Mishimab. 1991JPJapanese illustrator and mangaka
- Yuta Mishimab. 1994JPJapanese 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 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 269 | #68,360 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 244 | #31,253 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 243 | #78,567 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 239 | #84,529 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 15 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #367,319 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (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
- What does the name Mishima mean, and where does it come from?
- A slip inlay style of ceramic pottery adopted from Korea, probably in the 16th century. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Mishima?
- A machine transcription gives /mʲɪʃɪmə/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- In which country does Mishima have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 244 people named Mishima, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Mishima most common?
- Mishima is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 868 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mishima?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 244 people named Mishima, about 1 in 868 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mishimaThe 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, “Mishima”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.