Shohei
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Þjóðskrá Íslands, 2026
Shohei is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Japanese しょうへい (Shōhei).
- JPJapan≈1 in 2.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- ISIceland1 in 351K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 430K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Japan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 115 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈52,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Japanese しょうへい (Shōhei).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shohei 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 | #374 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Shohei | 115 |
| US United States | — | 164 | 1 in 2M | 162 | Shohei | 92 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Shohei | 12 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 731K | — | Shohei | 21 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 469K | — | Shohei | 3 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 432K | listed | — | 1 |
| IS Iceland | — | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
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; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); 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)- Shohé Tanakab. 1862JPnot in their usual nameJapanese physicist and music theorist (1862–1945)
- Shōhei Ōokab. 1909JPJapanese writer (1909–1988)
- Shohei Imamurab. 1926JPJapanese film director (1926-2006)
- Shohei Babab. 1938JPJapanese professional wrestler (1938-1999)
- Shōhei Hinob. 1949JPJapanese actor (1949–2024)
- Shohei Ikedab. 1981JPJapanese association football player
- Shohei Tateyamab. 1981JPJapanese baseball player
- Shohei Onob. 1992JPJapanese judoka
- Shohei Ohtanib. 1994JPJapanese professional baseball player
- Shohei Yabikub. 1995JPJapanese Greco-Roman wrestler
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 162 | #43,210 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1996 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1989 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2000 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 5 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2 | #43,210 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1 | — |
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 Shohei mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Japanese しょうへい (Shōhei). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Shohei a male or female name?
- Shohei is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Shohei have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 52 thousand people named Shohei in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shohei.
- How common is the name Shohei?
- In the United States, the national register counted 164 people named Shohei in 2020, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
- How common is Shohei compared with other names?
- In Japan, Shohei is the 374th most common given name of 366,905 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shoheiThe 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, “Shohei” — the 374th most common given name in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.