The surname Kimura
A Japanese surname, carried by 4,059 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex K560
Origin
Japanese origin
Borrowed from Japanese 木村 (Kimura).
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 4,059 people named Kimura in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 76,064 Americans. That is up 8.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,735.
Who is named Kimura
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
78% of people named Kimura identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 9.9% as two or more races and 9.2% as white (not Hispanic).
- Asian and Pacific Islander 78%
- Two or more races 9.9%
- White (not Hispanic) 9.2%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Kimura 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 Kimura come from?
- Borrowed from Japanese 木村 (Kimura).
- How common is the surname Kimura?
- 4,059 people in the United States had the surname Kimura in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 76,064 Americans. It ranked 8,164th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Kimura?
- In the 2010 Census, 78% of people named Kimura identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 9.9% as two or more races.
- Is the surname Kimura getting more or less common?
- More common. 3,735 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,059 in 2010, up 8.7%.