Nobuyuki
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Faithful happiness’
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: IBGE, 2022
/ˌnoʊbuˈjuki/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nobuyuki is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country.
- JPJapan≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M
- SGSingapore≈1 in 398K
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)
- Record sources
- 136 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈71,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)‘Faithful happiness’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nobuyuki 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 | #284 | ≈71,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Nobuyuki | 136 |
| US United States | — | 212 | 1 in 1.6M | 209 | Nobuyuki | 121 |
| BR Brazil | — | 51 | 1 in 4.2M | 51 | — | — |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Nobuyuki | 22 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 839K | — | Nobuyuki | 15 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 477K | — | Nobuyuki | 8 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 398K | — | Nobuyuki | 11 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). 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)- Nobuyuki Abeb. 1875JPJapanese general and politician (1875–1953)
- Nobu Matsuhisab. 1949JPnot in their usual nameJapanese chef
- Nobuyuki Takahashib. 1957JPJapanese film director and film producer
- Nobuyuki Fukumotob. 1958JPmanga artist
- Nobuyuki Muratab. 1966JPJapanese freelance journalist
- Nobuyuki Kojimab. 1966JPJapanese association football player
- Nobuyuki Hiyamab. 1967JPJapanese voice actor
- Nobuyuki Hosakab. 1970JPJapanese association football player
- Nobuyuki Kobushib. 1974JPJapanese voice actor
- Nobuyuki Tsujiib. 1988JPJapanese pianist and composer
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 209 | #37,052 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 51 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 51 | #65,741 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1940 | 31 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 28 | #54,455 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1940 | 20 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1924 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1921 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1928 | 5 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3 | #37,052 |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- What does the name Nobuyuki mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Faithful happiness’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Nobuyuki?
- A machine transcription gives /ˌnoʊbuˈjuki/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- Is Nobuyuki a male or female name?
- Nobuyuki is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Nobuyuki have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 71 thousand people named Nobuyuki in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nobuyuki.
- How common is the name Nobuyuki?
- In the United States, the national register counted 212 people named Nobuyuki in 2020, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
- How common is Nobuyuki compared with other names?
- In Japan, Nobuyuki is the 284th most common given name of 366,905 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nobuyukiThe 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, “Nobuyuki” — the 284th most common given name in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.