Miyamoto
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name meaning ‘(one who lives) at the shrine’, found mostly in western Japan and the island of Okinawa
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mijɑˈmoʊtoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Miyamoto is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
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)
habitational name meaning ‘(one who lives) at the shrine’, found mostly in western Japan and the island of Okinawa. Several noted samurai families bear this name, but the widespread existence of Shinto shrines in Japan indicates that most bearers are unrelated and are not of samurai rank.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Miyamoto counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 2.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 1.3K | — |
| FI Finland | — | 48 | — |
| ES Spain | — | 19 | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 15 | — |
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 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Yuriko Miyamotob. 1899JPJapanese novelist, critic, member of the Japanese Communist Party
- Masakatsu Miyamotob. 1938JPJapanese association football player and manager (1938–2002)
- Nobuko Miyamotob. 1945JPJapanese actress
- Shigeru Miyamotob. 1952JPJapanese video game designer (born 1952)
- Amon Miyamotob. 1958JPJapanese theatre director
- Hiroji Miyamotob. 1966JPJapanese singer-songwriter (1966–)
- Kōji Miyamotob. 1969JPJapanese singer-songwriter (1969-)
- Tsuneyasu Miyamotob. 1977JPJapanese association football player and manager
- Tomomi Miyamotob. 1978JPJapanese association football player
- Emiri Miyamotob. 1983JPJapanese violinist (1983-)
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 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.2K | #12,841 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.2K | #13,967 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.1K | #13,805 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.3K | #7,199 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 48 | #23,593 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 19 | #86,409 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 15 | #56,840 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Miyamoto mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name meaning ‘(one who lives) at the shrine’, found mostly in western Japan and the island of Okinawa. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Miyamoto?
- A machine transcription gives /mijɑˈmoʊtoʊ/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- In which country does Miyamoto have the most bearers?
- Miyamoto is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/miyamotoThe 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, “Miyamoto”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.