Nakashima

surname · Latin script

Meaning: ‘middle island’; also pronounced Nakajima

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Nakashima is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 199K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 102K
  • FIFinland1 in 348Kas Nakajima

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Nakashima 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)

2,066 people

Sources
210 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 102K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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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(measured from records)

‘middle island’; also pronounced Nakajima. The sense of ‘island’ is not necessarily land surrounded by water, but can denote a property surrounded by other holdings. Compare Nakamura.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nakashima 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.

Where Nakashima is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil2,0661 in 102K2.1K—3
US United States1,6741 in 199K1.7KNakashima210
ES Spain30as Nakajima1 in 1.7M30—7
FI Finland16as Nakajima1 in 348K16—1
PL Poland15as Nakajima1 in 2.6M9—1
CH Switzerland14as Nakajima1 in 600K14—2
SE Sweden10as Nakajima1 in 1M10—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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Nakashima is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada

    Also written Ńăkăshīmă

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Kesago Nakajima, b. 1881George Nakashima, b. 1905Kazuki Nakashima, b. 1959Tetsuya Nakashima, b. 1959Tadayuki Nakashima, b. 1971Yumi Nakashima, b. 1979Mika Nakashima, b. 1983Dream Ami, b. 1988Takuya Nakashima, b. 1991Yuki Nakashima, b. 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Nakashima
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—2.1K#4,737
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.7K#15,937
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.7K#16,975
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.5K#17,878
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—18#88,854
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20263—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20263—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—3#277,904
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—3#278,892
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—2#72,054
US United Stateswru 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

Where does the name Nakashima come from?
‘middle island’; also pronounced Nakajima. The sense of ‘island’ is not necessarily land surrounded by water, but can denote a property surrounded by other holdings. Compare Nakamura. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
What does the name Nakashima mean?
Recorded meaning: ‘middle island’; also pronounced Nakajima.
In which country does Nakashima 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 Nakashima most common?
Nakashima is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 102 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Nakashima?
In Brazil, the national register counted 2,066 people named Nakashima, about 1 in 102 thousand residents.

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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, “Nakashima”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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