Nitta
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A tropical tree of the genus Parkia, having edible pods and seeds, especially Parkia filicoidea or Parkia biglobosa
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nitta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country.
- JPJapan≈1 in 4.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 231K
- CNChina≈1 in 232K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Japan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 108 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈30,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A tropical tree of the genus Parkia, having edible pods and seeds, especially Parkia filicoidea or Parkia biglobosa.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nitta 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JP Japan | #901 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Nitta | 108 |
| CN China | — | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 232K | — | Nitta | 5 |
| US United States | — | 1,439 | 1 in 231K | 1.4K | Nitta | 86 |
| IN India | — | 542 | 1 in 2.4M | 542 | Nitta | 6 |
| BR Brazil | — | 328 | 1 in 645K | 328 | — | — |
| CA Canada | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 343K | — | Nitta | 15 |
| SE Sweden | — | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 357K | 3 | — | — |
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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Nitta is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In vep, to mow, to cut
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nitta Yoshisadab. 1301JPJapanese samurai lord (1301–1338)
- Jirō Nittab. 1912JPJapanese writer (1912–1980)
- Shōgen Nittab. 1934JPJapanese actor and seiyū
- Makiko Nittab. 1961JPJapanese voice actress
- Eri Nittab. 1968JPJapanese former singer
- Etsuo Nittab. 1974JPJapanese announcer
- Daisuke Nittab. 1980JPJapanese association football player
- Emi Nittab. 1985JPJapanese voice actress and singer
- Saki Nittab. 1990JPJapanese seiyū (1990-2022)
- Hiyori Nittab. 1997JPJapanese voice actress
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 24 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #18,961 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 1.2K | #3,181 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1K | #23,428 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 958 | #26,789 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 542 | #8,672 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 328 | #24,538 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2 | #70,018 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Nitta mean, and where does it come from?
- A tropical tree of the genus Parkia, having edible pods and seeds, especially Parkia filicoidea or Parkia biglobosa. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Nitta have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 30 thousand people named Nitta in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nitta.
- How common is the name Nitta?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,439 people named Nitta in 2010, about 1 in 231 thousand residents.
- How common is Nitta compared with other names?
- In Japan, Nitta is the 901st most common surname of 142,159 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nittaThe 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, “Nitta” — the 901st most common surname in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.