Nakajima
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘middle island’; a more common pronunciation is Nakashima
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/nɑkɑˈdʒimə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nakajima is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 199Kas Nakashima(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 348K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 600K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Nakajima 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)
- Sources
- 210 (measured from records)
- 1 in 348K (inferred from the name graph)
2,066 named Nakashima
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Nakashima in US United States.
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)
‘middle island’; a more common pronunciation is Nakashima.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nakajima 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 | 2,066as Nakashima | 1 in 102K | 2.1K | — | 3 |
| US United States | 1,674as Nakashima | 1 in 199K | 1.7K | Nakashima | 210 |
| ES Spain | 30 | 1 in 1.7M | 30 | — | 7 |
| FI Finland | 16 | 1 in 348K | 16 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 15 | 1 in 2.6M | 9 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 14 | 1 in 600K | 14 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 10 | 1 in 1M | 10 | — | 1 |
2,066 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 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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)
- Haruo Nakajimab. 1929JPJapanese actor (1929–2017)
- Yutaka Nakajimab. 1952JPJapanese actress
- Miyuki Nakajimab. 1952JPJapanese singer-songwriter, radio personality (1952-)
- Ramo Nakajimab. 1952JPJapanese writer (1952–2004)
- Satoru Nakajimab. 1953JPJapanese racing driver
- Atsuko Nakajimab. 1961JPJapanese animator, character designer, and illustrator
- Tomoko Nakajimab. 1971JPJapanese actress (1971-)
- Kazuki Nakajimab. 1985JPJapanese racing driver
- Megumi Nakajimab. 1989JPJapanese voice actress and singer
- Shoya Nakajimab. 1994JPJapanese footballer
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 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 774 | #31,961 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 753 | #29,543 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 710 | #32,396 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 399 | #20,772 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 30 | #63,844 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 30 | #62,916 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 16 | #42,814 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 14 | #47,506 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 10 | #39,342 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 9 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 9 | #145,215 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
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
- What does the name Nakajima mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘middle island’; a more common pronunciation is Nakashima. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Nakajima?
- A machine transcription gives /nɑkɑˈdʒimə/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- In which country does Nakajima have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Nakashima, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Nakajima most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nakajima is densest in Finland — about 1 in 348 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nakajima?
- In Spain, the national register counted 30 people named Nakajima, about 1 in 1.7 million 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/nakajimaThe 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, “Nakajima”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.