Shintaro
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃɪnˈtɑɹoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shintaro is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: pers. name, Japanese.
- JPJapan≈1 in 2.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M
- SGSingapore≈1 in 257K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Japan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 130 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈48,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Japan, est.
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(inferred from the name graph)
pers. name, Japanese
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shintaro 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 | #448 | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Shintaro | 129 |
| CN China | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Shintaro | 6 |
| US United States | — | 209 | 1 in 1.6M | 206 | Shintaro | 130 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 341K | — | Shintaro | 6 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈89 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Shintaro | 14 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 516K | 1 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 257K | — | Shintaro | 11 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 352K | listed | — | 2 |
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; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); the ee-siseministeerium-registry 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)
- Nakaoka Shintarōb. 1836JPsamurai in Bakumatsu period Japan (1836–1867)
- Shintaro Tsujib. 1927JPFounder of Sanrio, Japanese businessman
- Shintarō Ishiharab. 1932JPJapanese politician and author, Governor of Tokyo (1932–2022)
- Shintaro Ikedab. 1980JPJapanese badminton player
- Shintaro Haradab. 1980JPJapanese footballer (born 1980)
- Shintaro Yamadab. 1986JPJapanese actor-model
- Shintaro Shimizub. 1992JPJapanese association football player
- Shintaro Yokotab. 1995JPJapanese baseball player (1995-2023)
- Shintaro Shimadab. 1995JPJapanese association football player
- Shintaro Morimotob. 1997JPJapanese singer and 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 14 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 206 | #37,394 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2000 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1997 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1996 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1990 | 5 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3 | #37,394 |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2010 | 1 | — |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Shintaro?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃɪnˈtɑɹoʊ/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- What does the name Shintaro mean?
- Recorded meaning: pers. name, Japanese
- Is Shintaro a male or female name?
- Shintaro 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 Shintaro have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 48 thousand people named Shintaro in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shintaro.
- How common is the name Shintaro?
- In the United States, the national register counted 209 people named Shintaro in 2020, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
- How common is Shintaro compared with other names?
- In Japan, Shintaro is the 448th most common given name of 366,905 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shintaro?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shintaroThe 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, “Shintaro” — the 448th most common given name in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.