Nishijima
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/niʃiʒimə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nishijima is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.8M(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 1.2M
- BRBrazil1 in 1.2M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 74 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2M (inferred from the name graph)
187 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nishijima 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 | 187 | 1 in 1.8M | 200 | Nishijima | 74 |
| BR Brazil | 175 | 1 in 1.2M | 175 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 7 | 1 in 7.1M | 7 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 7 | 1 in 5.5M | 4 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 5 | 1 in 1.2M | 5 | — | — |
187 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; 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); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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)
- Gudō Wafu Nishijimab. 1919JPJapanese Buddhist priest (1919–2014)
- Hidetoshi Nishijimab. 1948JPJapanese politician and psychiatrist (1948-)
- Yoshinori Nishijimab. 1957JPJapanese linguist (1957-)
- Katsuhiko Nishijimab. 1960JPJapanese anime director
- Hidetoshi Nishijimab. 1971JPJapanese actor and model
- Daisuke Nishijimab. 1974JPJapanese mangaka and illustrator
- Hiroyuki Nishijimab. 1982JPJapanese association football player
- Madoka Nishijimab. 1985JPJapanese announcer
- Nissyb. 1986JPnot in their usual nameJapanese actor and singer
- Renta Nishijimab. 2003JPJapanese singer
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 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 200 | #97,359 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 191 | #89,895 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 187 | #97,210 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 175 | #41,015 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 5 | #60,459 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #234,291 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #278,858 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Nishijima?
- A machine transcription gives /niʃiʒimə/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- In which country does Nishijima have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 187 people named Nishijima, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nishijima.
- Where is Nishijima most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nishijima is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 1.2 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nishijima?
- In the United States, the national register counted 187 people named Nishijima in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
What do you want to know about Nishijima?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nishijimaThe 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, “Nishijima”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.