Nakamoto
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘central origin’ or ‘(one who lives) in the middle’; found mostly in the Ryukyu islands
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/nɐkɐmutu/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Nakamoto is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 326K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 3.8M
- BEBelgium1 in 3.9M
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 Nakamoto itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- 1 in 188K (inferred from the name graph)
1,770 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)‘central origin’ or ‘(one who lives) in the middle’; found mostly in the Ryukyu islands.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nakamoto 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,770 | 1 in 188K | 1.8K | Nakamoto | 6 |
| BR Brazil | 649 | 1 in 326K | 649 | — | — |
| TH Thailand | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | register #291,981 | Nakamoto | 15 |
| ES Spain | 13 | 1 in 3.8M | 13 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 3 | 1 in 3.9M | 3 | — | — |
1,770 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)- Takako Nakamotob. 1903JPJapanese novelist (1903-1991)
- Kouji Nakamotob. 1941JPJapanese comedian (1941-2022)
- Mari Nakamotob. 1947JPJapanese jazz, fusion, popular singer
- Ken Nakamotob. 1956JPJapanese actor
- Kuniharu Nakamotob. 1959JPJapanese association football player
- Taei Nakamotob. 1965JPJapanese politician
- Nobuhisa Nakamotob. 1979JPJapanese voice actor
- Yuta Nakamotob. 1995JPJapanese singer, rapper and actor
- Himeka Nakamotob. 1996JPJapanese counseling psychologist (1996-)
- Suzuka Nakamotob. 1997JPJapanese musician (born 1997)
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #16,295 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #15,780 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,706 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 649 | #13,458 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 13 | #105,312 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #135,601 |
| 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
- What does the name Nakamoto mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘central origin’ or ‘(one who lives) in the middle’; found mostly in the Ryukyu islands. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Nakamoto?
- In Portuguese /nɐkɐmutu/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Nakamoto have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Nakamoto, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nakamoto.
- Where is Nakamoto most common?
- Nakamoto is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 188 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Nakamoto?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,770 people named Nakamoto in 2010, about 1 in 188 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/nakamotoThe 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, “Nakamoto”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.