Yoshikawa
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Yoshikawa is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Japan. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Japanese 吉川 (Yoshikawa).
- 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 吉川 (Yoshikawa).
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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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)
- Yoshikawa Akimasab. 1842JPJapanese politician (1842-1920)
- Eiji Yoshikawab. 1892JPJapanese historical novelist (1892–1962)
- Mitsuko Yoshikawab. 1901JPJapanese actress (1901-1991)
- Chūei Yoshikawab. 1947JPJapanese singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer, arranger (1947-)
- Sōji Yoshikawab. 1947JPanime director
- Riria Yoshikawab. 1970JPJapanese actress
- Hinano Yoshikawab. 1979JPJapanese actress
- Miki Yoshikawab. 1981JPJapanese manga artist
- Maria Yoshikawab. 1988JPJapanese actor and seiyū
- Aimi Yoshikawab. 1994JPJapanese gravure idol, former pornographic actress and mainstream 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 17 sources across 10 countries.
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 Yoshikawa mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Japanese 吉川 (Yoshikawa). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Yoshikawa have the most bearers?
- Yoshikawa is most frequently recorded in Japan.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yoshikawaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
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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, “Yoshikawa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.