Nagashima
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/nɑɡəʃimə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nagashima is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 692K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M
- ESSpain1 in 5.6M
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 Nagashima 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
- 13 (measured from records)
- 1 in 692K (inferred from the name graph)
306 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nagashima 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 | 306 | 1 in 692K | 306 | — | — |
| US United States | 298 | 1 in 1.1M | 325 | Nagashima | 2 |
| ES Spain | 9 | 1 in 5.6M | 9 | — | — |
| TH Thailand | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 8.4M | #291,935 | Nagashima | 13 |
| PL Poland | 6 | 1 in 6.4M | 3 | — | — |
306 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 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Shigeo Nagashimab. 1936JPJapanese baseball player and manager (1936–2025)
- Toshiyuki Nagashimab. 1956JPJapanese actor
- Kiyoyuki Nagashimab. 1961JPJapanese baseball player
- Akihiro Nagashimab. 1964JPJapanese association football player
- Kazushige Nagashimab. 1966JPJapanese baseball player, actor, and sports commentator
- Yūko Nagashimab. 1969JPJapanese voice actress
- Yū Nagashimab. 1972JPJapanese novelist and writer
- Keiichiro Nagashimab. 1982JPJapanese speed skater
- Yuichiro Nagashimab. 1984JPJapanese kickboxer
- Shūgo Nagashimab. 1992JPJapanese actor
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 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 325 | #65,853 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 306 | #25,954 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 298 | #66,371 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 260 | #70,273 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 9 | #126,713 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #278,816 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #277,832 |
| 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
- How do you pronounce Nagashima?
- A machine transcription gives /nɑɡəʃimə/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- In which country does Nagashima have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 306 people named Nagashima, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Nagashima most common?
- Nagashima is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 692 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Nagashima?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 306 people named Nagashima, about 1 in 692 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/nagashimaThe 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, “Nagashima”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.