Miyazaki
surname · Latin script
Meaning: meaning ‘shrine cape’, the surname is found throughout Japan
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Miyazaki is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 190K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 488K
- BEBelgium1 in 1.1M
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
- 82 (measured from records)
- 1 in 190K (inferred from the name graph)
1,115 people
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
meaning ‘shrine cape’, the surname is found throughout Japan. Some residents of Miyazaki prefecture may have adopted the name as their surname.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Miyazaki 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 | 1,115 | 1 in 190K | 1.1K | Miyazaki | 82 |
| US United States | 682 | 1 in 488K | 682 | Miyazaki | 67 |
| ES Spain | 12 | 1 in 4.2M | 12 | — | 5 |
| BE Belgium | 11 | 1 in 1.1M | 11 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 4 | 1 in 9.6M | 4 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 3 |
1,115 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tōten Miyazakib. 1871JPJapanese social activist (1871-1922)
- Hayao Miyazakib. 1941JPJapanese animator, film director, and mangaka (born 1941)
- Shinji Miyazakib. 1956JPJapanese composer
- Yoshiko Miyazakib. 1958JPJapanese actress
- Tsutomu Miyazakib. 1962JPJapanese serial killer (1962–2008)
- Gorō Miyazakib. 1967JPJapanese anime director (born 1967)
- Masumi Miyazakib. 1968JPJapanese actress
- Hidetaka Miyazakib. 1974JPJapanese video game designer and executive (born 1974)
- Miyazaki Aoib. 1985JPJapanese actress
- Miho Miyazakib. 1993JPJapanese idol
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 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.1K | #8,387 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 682 | #33,450 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 661 | #36,437 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 661 | #32,743 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 12 | #109,635 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 11 | #68,733 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #232,929 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Miyazaki come from?
- meaning ‘shrine cape’, the surname is found throughout Japan. Some residents of Miyazaki prefecture may have adopted the name as their surname. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Miyazaki mean?
- Recorded meaning: meaning ‘shrine cape’, the surname is found throughout Japan.
- In which country does Miyazaki have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Miyazaki, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled miyazaki.
- Where is Miyazaki most common?
- Miyazaki is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 190 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Miyazaki?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,115 people named Miyazaki, about 1 in 190 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/miyazakiThe 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, “Miyazaki”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.