Yamazaki

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Yamazaki is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Japanese 山崎 (Yamazaki).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 753K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 192K
  • BRBrazil1 in 221K

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)

960 people

Sources
127 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 192K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Borrowed from Japanese 山崎 (Yamazaki).

Sources 1

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Yamazaki 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.

Where Yamazaki is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil9601 in 221K960—2
US United States4421 in 753K710Yamazaki127
SE Sweden341 in 300K34—4
FI Finland291 in 192K29——
ES Spain191 in 2.6M19—2
DK Denmark61 in 978K6——

960 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Yamazaki is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Philippines, Sweden

    Also written Yämäzäki, Yämäzäkï

  • Thai surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, United States, Laos

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written ยามาซากิ, Yamasaki, ยามาซาคิ, ยามาซะกิ, ยะมะซากิ

50 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

16001700180019002000Yamazaki Ansai, b. 1619Tsutomu Yamazaki, b. 1936Takashi Yamazaki, b. 1964Takumi Yamazaki, b. 1964Naoko Yamazaki, b. 1970Rei Dan, b. 1971Masayoshi Yamazaki, b. 1971Shigenori Yamazaki, b. 1974Ikusaburō Yamazaki, b. 1986Kento Yamazaki, b. 1994

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.

Official registers attesting Yamazaki
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—960#9,649
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020710#34,389
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000586#36,129
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010442#47,878
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—34#17,250
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—29#39,241
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—19#86,409
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—6#57,208
US United Stateswru 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 Yamazaki mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Japanese 山崎 (Yamazaki). Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Yamazaki have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 960 people named Yamazaki, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Yamazaki most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Yamazaki is densest in Finland — about 1 in 192 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Yamazaki?
In Brazil, the national register counted 960 people named Yamazaki, about 1 in 221 thousand residents.

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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, “Yamazaki”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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