The surname Kawamura
A Japanese surname, carried by 1,330 people in the United States.
4 syllables Soundex K560
Origin
Japanese origin
A surname from Japanese.
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 1,330 people named Kawamura in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 232,140 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,330.
Who is named Kawamura
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
76% of people named Kawamura identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 12% as two or more races and 7.2% as white (not Hispanic).
- Asian and Pacific Islander 76%
- Two or more races 12%
- White (not Hispanic) 7.2%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.3%
Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Kawamura
Kawamura has the Soundex code K560, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K560.
Other Japanese surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Kawamura come from?
- Kawamura is Japanese in origin.
- How common is the surname Kawamura?
- 1,330 people in the United States had the surname Kawamura in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 232,140 Americans. It ranked 20,088th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Kawamura?
- In the 2010 Census, 76% of people named Kawamura identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 12% as two or more races.
- Is the surname Kawamura getting more or less common?
- About as common. 1,330 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,330 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.