Takano
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Takano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Japanese 高野 (Takano).
- JPJapan≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 692K
- BRBrazil1 in 147K
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)
- Sources
- 143 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈70,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Japanese 高野 (Takano).
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Takano 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 | #354 | ≈70,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | listed | Takano | 143 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,444 | 1 in 147K | 1.4K | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 481 | 1 in 692K | 481 | Takano | 122 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 343K | — | Takano | 7 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Takano | 12 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 296K | — | Takano | 9 |
| FI Finland | — | 21 | 1 in 265K | 21 | — | 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: the japanese-names-oneill-1972 register; 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). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Takano is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ccc, face
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Toshiyuki Takanob. 1944JPJapanese diplomat
- Mark Takanob. 1960USAmerican politician (born 1960)
- Hiroyuki Takanob. 1961JPJapanese actor and seiyū
- Hiroshi Takanob. 1964JPJapanese singer-songwriter, music producer, and actor (1964-)
- Kazuaki Takanob. 1964JPJapanese writer
- Ayumi Takanob. 1973JPJapanese naturalized Turkish actress, TV presenter and writer
- Takano Ayab. 1976JPJapanese artist
- Shiho Takanob. 1979JPJapanese actress
- Mari Hoshinob. 1981JPnot in their usual nameJapanese actress
- Marie Takanob. 1981JPJapanese AV idol
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 19 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.4K | #6,575 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 481 | #44,653 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 469 | #43,377 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 436 | #51,542 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 21 | #42,268 |
| JP Japan | Japanese Names (O'Neill, 1972) | — | — | — |
| 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 Takano mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Japanese 高野 (Takano). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Takano have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 70 thousand people named Takano in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled takano.
- How common is the name Takano?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,444 people named Takano, about 1 in 147 thousand residents.
- How common is Takano compared with other names?
- In Japan, Takano is the 354th most common surname of 142,159 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/takanoThe 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, “Takano” — the 354th most common surname in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.