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
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
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.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
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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