Nakano
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘central field’; from a common place name
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/nɑˈkɑnoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nakano 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)
‘central field’; from a common place name. It is a frequent surname, found mostly in western Japan. As it is listed in the Shinsen shojiroku, some bearers can be assumed to be of ancient, noble origin.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
- JPJapan
- USUnited States
- BRBrazil
- CACanada
- PEPeru
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)
- Nakano Takekob. 1847JPJapanese warrior
- Teruyoshi Nakanob. 1935JPJapanese special effects director (1935−2022)
- Midori Nakanob. 1946JPJapanese essayist
- Desmond Nakanob. 1953USAmerican actor, director, composer and writer
- Amami Yūkib. 1967JPnot in their usual nameJapanese actress
- Ryōta Nakanob. 1973JPJapanese film director
- Miki Nakanob. 1977JPJapanese announcer
- Rie Sasakib. 1982JPnot in their usual nameJapanese politician
- Saima Nakanob. 1993JPJapanese voice actress
- Taigab. 1993JPnot in their usual nameJapanese 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 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.7K | #3,759 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.2K | #13,583 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.1K | #13,187 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #14,998 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 122 | #29,234 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 37 | #29,557 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 32 | #61,319 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 32 | #60,133 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 23 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 15 | #56,846 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 9 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 9 | #144,447 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Nakano come from?
- ‘central field’; from a common place name. It is a frequent surname, found mostly in western Japan. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Nakano?
- A machine transcription gives /nɑˈkɑnoʊ/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- What does the name Nakano mean?
- Recorded meaning: ‘central field’; from a common place name.
- In which country does Nakano have the most bearers?
- Nakano is most frequently recorded in Japan.
What do you want to know about Nakano?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nakanoThe 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, “Nakano”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.