Mizuno
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name meaning ‘water field’, from a village so named in Owari (now part of Aichi prefecture)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mɪˈzunoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mizuno is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Japan.
- JPJapan
- BRBrazil
- USUnited States
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)
habitational name meaning ‘water field’, from a village so named in Owari (now part of Aichi prefecture). The surname is found mostly along the eastern seaboard and on the island of Okinawa.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
- JPJapan
- USUnited States
- BRBrazil
- AUAustralia
- TWTaiwan
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)
- Mizuno Katsushigeb. 1564JPdaimyo
- Kumi Mizunob. 1937JPJapanese actress
- Hideko Mizunob. 1939JPJapanese mangaka (born 1939)
- Ryūji Mizunob. 1952JPJapanese actor and seiyū (1952-2022)
- Yū Mizunob. 1965JPJapanese actor and seiyū
- Maki Mizunob. 1970JPJapanese actress
- Miki Mizunob. 1974JPJapanese actress
- Haruki Mizunob. 1979JPJapanese pornographic actress
- Sonoya Mizunob. 1986JPJapanese actress
- Yui Mizunob. 1999JPJapanese singer (born 1999)
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 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 788 | #28,489 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 761 | #30,630 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 727 | #33,699 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 665 | #13,170 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 22 | #41,561 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 19 | #86,409 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 12 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 11 | #37,593 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 10 | #60,931 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #183,735 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #125,377 |
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 Mizuno come from?
- habitational name meaning ‘water field’, from a village so named in Owari (now part of Aichi prefecture). The surname is found mostly along the eastern seaboard and on the island of Okinawa. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mizuno?
- A machine transcription gives /mɪˈzunoʊ/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- What does the name Mizuno mean?
- Recorded meaning: habitational name meaning ‘water field’, from a village so named in Owari (now part of Aichi prefecture).
- In which country does Mizuno have the most bearers?
- Mizuno is most frequently recorded in Japan.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mizunoThe 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, “Mizuno”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.