The surname Inouye
A Japanese surname, carried by 2,647 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex I500
Origin
Japanese origin
Borrowed from Japanese 井上 (Inoue).
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 2,647 people named Inouye in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 116,640 Americans. That is down 3.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,751.
Who is named Inouye
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
73% of people named Inouye identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 13% as two or more races and 8.8% as white (not Hispanic).
- Asian and Pacific Islander 73%
- Two or more races 13%
- White (not Hispanic) 8.8%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.3%
Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Inouye has the Soundex code I500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code I500.
Other Japanese surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Inouye come from?
- Borrowed from Japanese 井上 (Inoue).
- How common is the surname Inouye?
- 2,647 people in the United States had the surname Inouye in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 116,640 Americans. It ranked 11,821st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Inouye?
- In the 2010 Census, 73% of people named Inouye identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 13% as two or more races.
- Is the surname Inouye getting more or less common?
- Less common. 2,751 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,647 in 2010, down 3.8%.