The surname Hirata
A Japanese surname, carried by 1,479 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex H630
Origin
Japanese origin
Borrowed from Japanese 平田 (Hirata).
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 1,479 people named Hirata in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 208,753 Americans. That is down 3.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,532.
Who is named Hirata
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
76% of people named Hirata identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 11% as two or more races and 7.6% as white (not Hispanic).
- Asian and Pacific Islander 76%
- Two or more races 11%
- White (not Hispanic) 7.6%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.9%
Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Hirata has the Soundex code H630, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H630.
Other Japanese surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Hirata come from?
- Borrowed from Japanese 平田 (Hirata).
- How common is the surname Hirata?
- 1,479 people in the United States had the surname Hirata in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 208,753 Americans. It ranked 18,614th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Hirata?
- In the 2010 Census, 76% of people named Hirata identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 11% as two or more races.
- Is the surname Hirata getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,532 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,479 in 2010, down 3.5%.