Takagi
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Takagi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Japanese 高木 (Takagi).
- FIFinland1 in 143K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 441K
- BEBelgium1 in 781K
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 Takagi 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 25 (measured from records)
- 1 in 143K (inferred from the name graph)
1,431 named Takaki
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Takaki in US United States.
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 高木 (Takagi).
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Takagi 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.
1,431 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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)
- Teiji Takagib. 1875JPJapanese mathematician (1875–1960)
- Takeo Takagib. 1892JPadmiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II
- Yuriko Mikasab. 1923JPnot in their usual nameJapanese princess; widow of Takahito, Prince Mikasa (1923–2024)
- Hitoshi Takagib. 1925JPJapanese voice actor (1925–2004)
- Jinzaburo Takagib. 1938JPJapanese nuclear chemist
- Morimichi Takagib. 1941JPJapanese baseball player
- Miho Takagib. 1962JPJapanese actress and essayist (1962-)
- Wataru Takagib. 1966JPJapanese actor and voice actor
- Maria Takagib. 1978JPJapanese pornographic actress
- Takagi Masakatsub. 1979JPJapanese electronic music composer
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 17 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 755 | #30,825 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 750 | #29,625 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 667 | #36,150 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 466 | #18,157 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 39 | #28,503 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 19 | #86,409 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 15 | #56,813 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 7 | #46,160 |
| 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 Takagi mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Japanese 高木 (Takagi). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Takagi have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Takaki, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Takagi most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Takagi is densest in Finland — about 1 in 143 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Takagi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 755 people named Takagi in 2010, about 1 in 441 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Takagi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/takagiThe 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, “Takagi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.