Ozawa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Seiji, Japanese conductor
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/oʊˈzɑwə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ozawa is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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(measured from records)
Seiji, Japanese conductor
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ozawa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 589 | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 435 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 64 | — |
| FI Finland | — | 21 | — |
| ES Spain | — | 13 | — |
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 2000; 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); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Ozawa 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 Filipino, A transliteration of the Japanese surname 小沢
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)
- Jisaburo Ozawab. 1886JPJapanese admiral (1886–1966)
- Seiji Ozawab. 1935JPJapanese orchestra conductor (1935–2024)
- Kenji Ozawab. 1968JPJapanese musician (1968-)
- Natsuki Ozawab. 1972JPJapanese pornographic actress
- Yukiyoshi Ozawab. 1974JPJapanese actor
- Minako Ozawab. 1976JPJapanese actor and seiyū
- Madoka Ozawab. 1978JPJapanese AV idol and V-Cinema actress
- Erika Ozawab. 1982JPJapanese tarento and race queen
- Naho Ozawab. 1983JPJapanese pornographic actress
- Maria Ozawab. 1986JPJapanese AV idol and pornographic 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 589 | #35,994 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 519 | #41,886 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 518 | #44,611 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 435 | #19,272 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 64 | #43,667 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 21 | #42,119 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 13 | #105,312 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Ozawa mean, and where does it come from?
- Seiji, Japanese conductor Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Ozawa?
- A machine transcription gives /oʊˈzɑwə/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- In which country does Ozawa have the most bearers?
- Ozawa is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Ozawa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ozawaThe 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, “Ozawa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.