Ohira
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Masayoshi, prime minister, Japan (Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/uiɾɐ/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated · uncertain
Ohira is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country.
- JPJapan≈1 in 9.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 913K
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Japan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 81 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Ohira
- Portuguese:/uiɾɐ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Masayoshi, prime minister, Japan
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Ohira is found
(measured from records)Ohira 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 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Ohira | 81 |
| US United States | 250 | 1 in 1.3M | 250 | Ohira | 65 |
| BR Brazil | 232 | 1 in 913K | 232 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | 10 | Ohira | 7 |
| CA Canada | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | — | Ohira | 4 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 769K | — | Ohira | 4 |
| DK Denmark | 3 | 1 in 2M | 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)- Masayoshi Ōhirab. 1910JPJapanese politician (1910-1980)
- Toru Ohirab. 1929JPJapanese voice actor (1929–2016)
- Shuzo Ohirab. 1930JPJapanese Go player
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ohira mean, and where does it come from?
- Masayoshi, prime minister, Japan Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Ohira?
- In Portuguese /uiɾɐ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ohira?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Ohira in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ohira. After it come United States, Brazil, United Kingdom and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Ohira?
- In the United States, the national register counted 250 people named Ohira in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ohiraThe 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, “Ohira”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.