Miyashiro
surname · Latin script
Meaning: meaning ‘shrine castle’, the surname is found mostly in the Ryukyu Islands
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mijɑˈʃɪɹoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Miyashiro is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- PEPeru
- JPJapan
- BRBrazil
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
meaning ‘shrine castle’, the surname is found mostly in the Ryukyu Islands. The same characters are also pronounced Miyagi, Miyagushiku, and Miyagusuku.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
- USUnited States
- PEPeru
- BRBrazil
- ARArgentina
- JPJapan
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- Akiho Miyashirob. 1920JPJapanese geologist
- Augusto Miyashirob. 1949PEPeruvian politician
- Marco Miyashirob. 1953PEPeruvian politician
- Eric Miyashirob. 1963USJazz trumpeter, composer, band leader, professor (1963-)
- Aldo Miyashirob. 1976PEPeruvian screenwriter and actor
- Paulo Miyashirob. 1976BRBrazilian triathlete
- Tamari Miyashirob. 1987USvolleyball player
- Daisuke Miyashirob. 1991JPJapanese footballer
- Taisei Miyashirob. 2000JPJapanese association football player
- Seiji MiyashiroJPJapanese scientist
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 | 1.7K | #15,676 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #17,005 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,191 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 980 | #9,433 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 187 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 17 | #91,572 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1947 | 1 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 1 | — |
| 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
- Where does the name Miyashiro come from?
- meaning ‘shrine castle’, the surname is found mostly in the Ryukyu Islands. The same characters are also pronounced Miyagi, Miyagushiku, and Miyagusuku. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Miyashiro?
- A machine transcription gives /mijɑˈʃɪɹoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Miyashiro mean?
- Recorded meaning: meaning ‘shrine castle’, the surname is found mostly in the Ryukyu Islands.
- In which country does Miyashiro have the most bearers?
- Miyashiro is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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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, “Miyashiro”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.