Shibata
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Shibata is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Japanese 柴田 (Shibata).
- FIFinland1 in 155K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 198K
- USUnited States1 in 267K
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 Shibata 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 35 (measured from records)
- 1 in 155K (inferred from the name graph)
1,244 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
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(measured from records)
Borrowed from Japanese 柴田 (Shibata).
Sources 1
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shibata 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.
1,244 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
- Shibata Katsuieb. 1522JPJapanese nobleman and warrior
- Toyo Shibatab. 1911JPJapanese poet (1911-2013)
- Minao Shibatab. 1916JPJapanese composer and musicologist (1916-1996)
- Kyōhei Shibatab. 1951JPJapanese actor, singer
- Chageb. 1958JPnot in their usual nameJapanese singer-songwriter
- Rie Shibatab. 1959JPJapanese actress
- Tomoyo Shibatab. 1974JPJapanese announcer
- Hidetsugu Shibatab. 1975JPJapanese comedian
- Ai Shibatab. 1982JPJapanese swimmer
- Riko Shibatab. 1995JPJapanese American 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,105 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,565 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #22,200 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.1K | #8,712 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 36 | #30,337 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 9 | #41,860 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 8 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 8 | #157,759 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #169,613 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Shibata mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Japanese 柴田 (Shibata). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Shibata have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Shibata, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shibata.
- Where is Shibata most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shibata is densest in Finland — about 1 in 155 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Shibata?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,244 people named Shibata in 2010, about 1 in 267 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shibataThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Shibata”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.