Shimakawa Surname

85,681st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 5,629 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Japan
Highest density in:
Japan

Shimakawa Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Shimakawa Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Japan5,4971:23,2572,490
Brazil661:3,243,55093,057
United States281:12,944,962483,512
Paraguay191:380,8815,564
Thailand91:7,848,705447,191
Philippines31:33,746,074302,898
Canada21:18,422,796409,488
Netherlands21:8,443,588136,641
Czechia11:10,633,469206,023
England11:55,718,059489,080
Qatar11:2,357,99976,403

Shimakawa Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Shimakawa Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Shimakawa is held by more people in Japan than any other country or territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Shimakawa? popularity and diffusion

Shimakawa is the 85,681st most common last name worldwide, borne by around 1 in 1,294,643 people. The surname occurs mostly in Asia, where 98 percent of Shimakawa reside; 98 percent reside in East Asia and 98 percent reside in Nippono-Asia.

This surname is most frequent in Japan, where it is held by 5,497 people, or 1 in 23,257. In Japan Shimakawa is most prevalent in: Tokyo Metropolis, where 11 percent live, Osaka Prefecture, where 11 percent live and Hiroshima Prefecture, where 7 percent live. Excluding Japan this last name exists in 10 countries. It also occurs in Brazil, where 1 percent live and The United States, where 0 percent live.

Shimakawa Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those holding the Shimakawa last name are 34.27% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 87.5% being registered to vote for the party.

Shimakawa earn around the same as the average income. In United States they earn 2.22% more than the national average, earning $44,106 USD per year.

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Shimakawa
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