Megumi

given name · Japanese · Latin script

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

Megumi is a given name, most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is the 13th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Japanese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ‘Blessing’.

rarermore common
  • JPJapan1 in 714◐
  • USUnited States1 in 190K
  • SGSingapore1 in 114K

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

≈2.0K ●

across 10 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
176 ●

94K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 175K ◐

Iceland

Spellings & scripts●

MegumiLatin · Japanese●107K records
메구미Hangul · Korean●2 records

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

‘Blessing’.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Megumi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
JP Japan#13101,19989K rec.——Megumi157
US United States—1,7554.2K rec.1 in 190K1.8KMegumi176
CA Canada—205196 rec.—1Megumi26
MY Malaysia—182184 rec.——Megumi12
PH Philippines—17893 rec.——Megumi16
GB United Kingdom—140114 rec.—listedMegumi33
PE Peru—12747 rec.——Megumi13
SG Singapore—9496 rec.——Megumi15
BR Brazil—83—1 in 2.6M330——
ES Spain—50141 rec.1 in 1M50Megumi14
SE Sweden—36△1 rec.1 in 283K36—3
RU Russia—3238 rec.——Megumi11

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

Languages●

  • Japanese107K88%
  • English6.3K5%
  • Portuguese2.8K2%
  • Spanish2.1K2%
  • French5471%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Japanese106,53788%
English6,3165%
Portuguese2,8122%
Spanish2,0622%
French5471%

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◐

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

  • English given name7.1K records spelled Megumi4 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, Western Frisian

    Also written Mégumi

  • French given name599 records spelled Megumi4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain

    Also written Mégumi, Mëgúmï

  • Thai given name192 records spelled Megumi9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, Laos, United States, Japan

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written เมกุมิ, เมกูมิ, เมงูมิ, เมงุมิ, เมกุมุ

44 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.

Over time●

01020301980199020002010202025 · 1991

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Megumi in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1973–2025
Yearrecords
19737
19747
19776
19789
19798
19807
198110
198214
19838
198410
198511
19869
19876
198813
198914
199019
199125
199215
199314
199419
199519
199619
199723
199823
199921
200021
200120
200217
200313
200414
200515
200613
20077
200814
20098
201012
201110
201211
20137
20148
20158
201810
201913
20208
20239
20246
20257

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 47 years between 1973–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1960197019801990Megumi Yokota, b. 1964Megumi Ogata, b. 1965Megumi Urawa, b. 1965Megumi Hayashibara, b. 1967Megumi Igarashi, b. 1972Megumi Ohara, b. 1975Megumi Toyoguchi, b. 1978Megumi Okina, b. 1979Megumi Sato, b. 1984Megumi Han, b. 1989

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 34 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Megumi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.8K#8,213
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—330#24,414
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—91#23,774
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202283—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—69#47,007
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—53#8,319
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—50#27,800
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—43#14,188
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—36#14,224
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—36#16,889
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199125—
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—23#59,062

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 158 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Megumi?
We estimate roughly 2.0 thousand people bear Megumi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Megumi have the most bearers?
Megumi is most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is most often spelled megumi.
How common is Megumi compared with other names?
In Japan, Megumi is the 13th most common given name of 355,102 given names recorded there.
Is Megumi a male or female name?
Megumi is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Megumi mean?
Recorded meaning: ‘Blessing’.
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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, “Megumi” — the 13th most common given name in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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