Shigeo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Luxuriant man’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃɪˈɡeɪˌoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shigeo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2M(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 2.8M
- SESweden1 in 3.4M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 24 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.0M (inferred from the name graph)
164 people, 2020
Reference-verified
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘Luxuriant man’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shigeo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 164 | 1 in 2M | 164 | Shigeo | 5 |
| BR Brazil | 75 | 1 in 2.8M | 109 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 3 | 1 in 3.4M | 3 | — | — |
| FR France | — | — | — | Shigeo | 24 |
| BE Belgium | — | — | — | Shigeo | 1 |
164 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
- Shigeo Miyoshib. 1898JPJapanese politician
- Shigeo Shingob. 1909JPJapanese engineer (1909–1990)
- Shigeo Ozawab. 1926JPJapanese actor and seiyū
- Shigeo Fukudab. 1932JPJapanese artist (1932-2009)
- Shigeo Yaegashib. 1933JPJapanese association football player (1933-2011)
- Shigeo Tokudab. 1934JPJapanese pornographic actor
- Shigeo Nagashimab. 1936JPJapanese baseball player and manager (1936–2025)
- Shigeo Kitamurab. 1945JPJapanese politician
- Shigeo Gochōb. 1946JPJapanese photographer (1946-1983)
- Tsurutaro Kataokab. 1954JPnot in their usual nameJapanese actor
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 164 | #43,210 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 109 | #17,609 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 77 | #40,899 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 75 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 75 | #50,418 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1940 | 46 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1923 | 38 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1916 | 36 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1921 | 31 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1940 | 29 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1924 | 29 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1920 | 26 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Shigeo mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Luxuriant man’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Shigeo?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃɪˈɡeɪˌoʊ/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- Is Shigeo a male or female name?
- Shigeo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Shigeo have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 164 people named Shigeo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shigeo.
- Where is Shigeo most common?
- Shigeo is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.0 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Shigeo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 164 people named Shigeo in 2020, about 1 in 2.0 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/shigeoThe 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, “Shigeo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.