NoDa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘rice paddy in the field’, a common place name and surname throughout Japan
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
NoDa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 134K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 4.3K
- ESSpain1 in 33K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 80 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
1,585 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘rice paddy in the field’, a common place name and surname throughout Japan.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
NoDa 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.
1,585 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname), counting the spelling noda. 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: 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
NoDa is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of のだ
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Japanese, unexplained.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of nōdō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romansh, third-person singular present active indicative of nudar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, nominative/dative plural of nod
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)
- Kōgo Nodab. 1893JPJapanese screenwriter (1893–1968)
- Noda Hidekib. 1955JPJapanese playwright and director
- Yoshihiko Nodab. 1957JPPrime Minister of Japan from 2011 to 2012
- Seiko Nodab. 1960JPJapanese politician
- Satoru Nodab. 1969JPJapanese association football player
- Akemi Nodab. 1969JPJapanese association football player
- Junko Nodab. 1971JPJapanese voice actress
- Koji Nodab. 1986JPJapanese association football player
- Ayumi Nodab. 1990JPJapanese seiyū and actor
- Satoru Nodab. 2000JPJapanese mangaka
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 25 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.6K | #6,043 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.5K | #3,069 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.5K | #3,069 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,439 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,590 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,828 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 786 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 96 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 22 | #41,582 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- What does the name NoDa mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘rice paddy in the field’, a common place name and surname throughout Japan. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does NoDa have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named NoDa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled NoDa.
- Where is NoDa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, NoDa is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 4.3 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name NoDa?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,585 people named NoDa, about 1 in 134 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nodaThe 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, “NoDa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.