The surname Asato
A Japanese surname, carried by 1,041 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex A230
Origin
Japanese origin
Borrowed from Japanese 安里 (Asato) or あさと (Asato).
One of 123 Japanese surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,041 people named Asato in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 296,586 Americans. That is down 2.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,062.
Who is named Asato
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
79% of people named Asato identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 14% as two or more races and 4.7% as white (not Hispanic).
- Asian and Pacific Islander 79%
- Two or more races 14%
- White (not Hispanic) 4.7%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Asato has the Soundex code A230, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A230.
Other Japanese surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Asato come from?
- Borrowed from Japanese 安里 (Asato) or あさと (Asato).
- How common is the surname Asato?
- 1,041 people in the United States had the surname Asato in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 296,586 Americans. It ranked 24,159th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Asato?
- In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Asato identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 14% as two or more races.
- Is the surname Asato getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,062 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,041 in 2010, down 2.0%.