Okazawa
surname · Latin script
Okazawa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 7.6M(measured from records)
- THThailand≈1 in 51Mas โอกาซาวา
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Okazawa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 3 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.6M (inferred from the name graph)
28 people
recorded for this name
Reference-verified
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Okazawa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 28 | 1 in 7.6M | 28 | — | — |
| TH Thailand | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 51M | — | Okazawa | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 5 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | — | — | listed | — | — |
28 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)
- Kuwashi Okazawab. 1844JPJapanese military personnel (1844-1908)
- Hidetora Okazawab. 1902JPJapnese scholar of Russian literature and literary critic (1902–1973)
- Norio Okazawab. 1944JPJapanese political scientist (1944-2024)
- Margo Okazawa-Reyb. 1949USJapanese American academic
- Akira Okazawab. 1951Japanese jazz bassist
- yumi okazawab. 1968JPJapanese children's writer (1968-)
- Rei Okazawab. 1979JPJapanese actor
- Sewon Okazawab. 1995JPJapanese boxer (1995-)
- Rina Okazawab. 1996JPJapanese AV idol
- Kosei Okazawab. 2003JPJapanese association football 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 28 | #156,028 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 5 | #230,412 |
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
- In which country does Okazawa have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 28 people named Okazawa, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Okazawa most common?
- Okazawa is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.6 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Okazawa?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 28 people named Okazawa, about 1 in 7.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Okazawa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/okazawaThe 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, “Okazawa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.