Junya

given name · Japanese · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Junya is a given name, most frequently recorded in Japan. It appears chiefly in Japanese and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • JPJapan1 in 3.5K◐
  • SGSingapore1 in 769K
  • DKDenmark1 in 1.5M

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈186 ●

across 5 countries

Sources
121 ●

17K records

Reference-verified

1 in 1.5M ◐

Denmark

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Junya is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
JP Japan#41920,64217K rec.——Junya121
CN China—21542 rec.——Junya25
US United States—126528 rec.1 in 2.6M126Junya71
BR Brazil—47—1 in 4.5M47——
GB United Kingdom—4634 rec.——Junya13
CA Canada—1918 rec.——Junya6
ID Indonesia—199 rec.——Junya10
TW Taiwan—154 rec.——Junya8
SG Singapore—1414 rec.——Junya3
NL Netherlands—114 rec.——Junya7
RU Russia—99 rec.——Junya3
IN India—610 rec.——Junya5

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Japanese21K85%
  • English1.1K5%
  • Thai9444%
  • Portuguese3842%
  • Chinese2861%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Japanese20,98985%
English1,1165%
Thai9444%
Portuguese3842%
Chinese2861%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Junya is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name1.6K records spelled Junya10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Germany, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Jun-Ya, Jun'Ya, ๋ีJunya

  • Portuguese given name688 records spelled Junya3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Argentina, Dominican Republic

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Júnya

  • a separate given name211 records spelled Junya3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in China, India, United States

    Also written Jun-Ya, Jun'Ya

24 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.

Other recorded senses●

Junya is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In kw, to join, connect, link

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Junya Satō, b. 1932Jun'ya Hiramoto, b. 1966ZUN, b. 1977Junya Hosokawa, b. 1984Junya Yamashiro, b. 1985Junya Koga, b. 1987Junya Tanaka, b. 1987Junya Osaki, b. 1991Junya Ikeda, b. 1992Junya Itō, b. 1993
  • Junya Satōb. 1932JPJapanese film director
  • Jun'ya Hiramotob. 1966JPnot in their usual nameJapanese tarento and businessperson
  • ZUNb. 1977JPnot in their usual nameJapanese video game developer and composer
  • Junya Hosokawab. 1984JPJapanese association football player
  • Junya Yamashirob. 1985JPJapanese association football player
  • Junya Kogab. 1987JPJapanese swimmer
  • Junya Tanakab. 1987JPJapanese association football player (born 1987)
  • Junya Osakib. 1991JPJapanese association football player
  • Junya Ikedab. 1992JPJapanese voice actor
  • Junya Itōb. 1993JPJapanese association football player (born 1993)

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●

Attested in 16 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Junya
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020126#36,929
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202087#36,929
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202247—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—42#69,533
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—28#49,331
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—20#28,180
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—20#26,621
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—5#44,278
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20005—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—4#19,325
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20264#20,691
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)20024—

Reference works 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 21 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Junya?
We estimate roughly 186 people bear Junya (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Junya have the most bearers?
Junya is most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is most often spelled junya.
How common is Junya compared with other names?
In Japan, Junya is the 419th most common given name of 355,102 given names recorded there.
Is Junya a male or female name?
Junya is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Junya” — the 419th most common given name in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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