Tsushima
surname · Latin script
Meaning: island, Japan
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Tsushima is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country.
- JPJapan≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 2.5M
- USUnited States1 in 3.1M
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
- 68 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
island, Japan
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tsushima 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 | ≈9,800 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Tsushima | 68 |
| US United States | 106 | 1 in 3.1M | 116 | Tsushima | 57 |
| BR Brazil | 59 | 1 in 3.6M | 59 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 18 | 1 in 2.5M | 18 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 4.8M | 10 | Tsushima | 5 |
| CA Canada | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | — | Tsushima | 6 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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)
- Juichi Tsushimab. 1888JPJapanese politician
- Bunji Tsushimab. 1898JPJapanese politician (1898-1973)
- Osamu Dazaib. 1909JPnot in their usual nameJapanese author
- Keiko Tsushimab. 1926JPJapanese actress (1926–2012)
- Yūji Tsushimab. 1930JPJapanese politician (1930–2023)
- Toshiaki Tsushimab. 1936JPJapanese composer
- Yūko Tsushimab. 1947JPJapanese author (1947–2016)
- Jun Tsushimab. 1966JPJapanese politician
- Mitsutoshi Tsushimab. 1974JPJapanese association football player
- Ayuko Tsushimab. 1975JPJapanese announcer
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 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 116 | #134,037 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 108 | #150,935 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 106 | #153,769 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 59 | #93,298 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 18 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 10 | #143,714 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname 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 Tsushima mean, and where does it come from?
- island, Japan Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does Tsushima have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.8 thousand people named Tsushima in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tsushima.
- How common is the name Tsushima?
- In the United States, the national register counted 106 people named Tsushima in 2010, about 1 in 3.1 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tsushimaThe 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, “Tsushima”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.