Mazda is a Japanese brand.

Mazda, whose full name is Mazda Motor Corporation (Japanese: マツダ, English: Mazda Motor Corporation), is a Japanese multinational automobile manufacturer listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TYO), ranking 4th in the Fortune Global 5 in 22.

The origin of the name

It is said that "MAZDA" is the English spelling of the surname "Song Tian" of Jujiro Matsuda, the founder of the company, and that "Mazda" is a transliteration of the Japanese pronunciation of "Song Tian", which is actually not accurate. Song Tian's romaji is spelled "MATSUDA" instead of "MAZDA". The trademark "MAZDA" is related to Jujiro Matsuda, but it is not the same as "Song Tian". MAZDA cars cannot be translated into Song Tian cars.

Jujiro Matsuda, the founder, didn't want to give the company a pure Japanese name, so he didn't directly use the English spelling of his Japanese name as a trademark like Toyota and Honda. Instead, he looked through the English dictionary to find an English word that was closest to the English spelling of his surname Matsuda Jyujiro, and he finally found "MAZDA". The pronunciation of "MAZDA" is the same as that of "Song Tian" in Japanese.