Given name & surname

Kimura

Kimura is a surname from Japanese. It is used in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Tagalog.

Original Japanese木邨

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Kimura comes from Japanese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Japanese 木村 (Kimura).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2013. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Kimura through the years

Babies since 1880
28
0 boys · 28 girls
Most popular year
2019
6 babies
2025
5
#16,183 for girls
2021–25 vs 2016–20
—
Too few births to compare
012342025Highest share 20233.1
Kimura in U.S. Social Security birth records, 2013–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 16,183 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,599 as a surname in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Kimura’s family of names

In Spanish usage, Kimura as a surname was borrowed from the Japanese form 木村. In Japanese usage, Kimura as a surname is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 木邨.

Walk Kimura’s family in the name graph

Kimura木邨木村

Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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