Yamamura
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Yamamura is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Japan. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Japanese 山村 (Yamamura).
- JPJapan
- BRBrazil
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Japanese 山村 (Yamamura).
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
- JPJapan
- USUnited States
- BRBrazil
- PEPeru
- CACanada
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- Sō Yamamurab. 1910JPJapanese actor (1910–2000)
- Misa Yamamurab. 1931JPJapanese novelist (1931-1996)
- Takeshi Yamamurab. 1957JPJapanese politician (1957-)
- Momiji Yamamurab. 1960JPJapanese actress
- Kōji Yamamurab. 1964JPJapanese independent animator
- Hiroto Yamamurab. 1974JPJapanese association football player
- Terutsugu Yamamurab. 1976JPJapanese politician
- Yasuhiro Yamamurab. 1976JPJapanese association football player
- Kazuya Yamamurab. 1989JPJapanese association football player
- Yuki Yamamurab. 1990JPJapanese association football player
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 13 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 611 | #14,228 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 411 | #50,771 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 410 | #54,291 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 365 | #53,191 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 23 | #82,763 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #110,481 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #415,333 |
| 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 Yamamura mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Japanese 山村 (Yamamura). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Yamamura have the most bearers?
- Yamamura is most frequently recorded in Japan.
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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, “Yamamura”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.