Yamaguchi
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Kristi, US figure skater
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/jɑməɡʉtʃi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yamaguchi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country, where it is the 77th most common surname.
- JPJapan≈1 in 454(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 114K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 100K
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
- 213 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 454 (inferred from the name graph)
≈280,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Kristi, US figure skater
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yamaguchi 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 | #77 | ≈280,000 est. | ≈1 in 454 | — | Yamaguchi | 173 |
| US United States | — | 2,912 | 1 in 114K | 2.9K | Yamaguchi | 213 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,956 | 1 in 108K | 2K | — | — |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 318K | — | Yamaguchi | 30 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Yamaguchi | 36 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Yamaguchi | 17 |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
- Tsutomu Yamaguchib. 1916JPJapanese marine engineer (1916–2010)
- Yoshiko Ōtakab. 1920JPnot in their usual nameJapanese singer and actress (1920-2014)
- Otoya Yamaguchib. 1943JPJapanese ultranationalist who assassinated Inejiro Asanuma (1943–1960)
- Natsuo Yamaguchib. 1952JPJapanese politician
- Tsuyoshi Yamaguchib. 1954JPJapanese politician
- Mitsuo Yamaguchib. 1965JPJapanese actor and voice actor
- Noriyuki Yamaguchib. 1966JPJapanese journalist
- Akira Yamaguchib. 1969JPJapanese painter, contemporary artist (1969-)
- Kristi Yamaguchib. 1971USAmerican figure skater
- Mayu Yamaguchib. 1983JPJapanese legal scholar, international lawyer, and professor (1983-)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.9K | #10,931 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.9K | #10,273 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.8K | #10,961 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2K | #4,963 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Yamaguchi mean, and where does it come from?
- Kristi, US figure skater Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Yamaguchi?
- A machine transcription gives /jɑməɡʉtʃi/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- In which country does Yamaguchi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 276 thousand people named Yamaguchi in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yamaguchi.
- How common is the name Yamaguchi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,912 people named Yamaguchi in 2010, about 1 in 114 thousand residents.
- How common is Yamaguchi compared with other names?
- In Japan, Yamaguchi is the 77th 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/yamaguchiThe 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, “Yamaguchi” — the 77th most common surname in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.