Ueno
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ueno is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Japanese 上野 (Ueno) or 植野 (Ueno).
- BRBrazil1 in 134K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 228K
- FIFinland1 in 232K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- 1 in 134K (inferred from the name graph)
1,582 people
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Japanese 上野 (Ueno) or 植野 (Ueno).
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ueno 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 1,582 | 1 in 134K | 1.6K | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 502 | 1 in 663K | 611 | Ueno | 38 |
| NO Norway | — | 24 | 1 in 228K | 24 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 24 | 1 in 232K | 24 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 24 | 1 in 2.1M | 24 | — | 9 |
| SE Sweden | — | 10 | 1 in 1M | 10 | — | — |
| LU Luxembourg | #222 | — | — | — | Ueno | 1 |
1,582 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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)
- Hidesaburō Uenob. 1872JPJapanese agricultural scientist (1872-1925)
- Noboru Uenob. 1926JPJapanese economist (1926-2014)
- Junko Hiramatsub. 1942JPnot in their usual nameJapanese figure skater
- Chizuko Uenob. 1948JPJapanese sociologist
- Yutaka Nakajimab. 1952JPnot in their usual nameJapanese actress
- Yōko Uenob. 1963JPJapanese singer
- Masae Uenob. 1979JPJapanese judoka
- Yukiko Uenob. 1982JPsoftball player
- Yoshie Uenob. 1983JPJapanese judoka
- Juri Uenob. 1986JPJapanese actress
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 23 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.6K | #6,051 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 611 | #38,939 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 502 | #43,077 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 467 | #43,546 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 24 | #39,428 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 24 | #74,912 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 24 | #73,510 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 24 | #40,782 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 10 | #39,410 |
| 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 Ueno mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Japanese 上野 (Ueno) or 植野 (Ueno). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Ueno have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Ueno, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ueno most common?
- Ueno is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 134 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ueno?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,582 people named Ueno, about 1 in 134 thousand residents.
- How common is Ueno compared with other names?
- In Luxembourg, Ueno is the 222nd most common surname of 1,851 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ueno?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/uenoThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Ueno” — the 222nd most common surname in Luxembourg. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.