The surname Kinoshita
A Japanese surname, carried by 1,249 people in the United States.
4 syllables Soundex K523
Origin
Japanese origin
Borrowed from Japanese 木下 (Kinoshita).
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 1,249 people named Kinoshita in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 247,194 Americans. That is down 3.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,300.
Who is named Kinoshita
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
77% of people named Kinoshita identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 11% as two or more races and 7.7% as white (not Hispanic).
- Asian and Pacific Islander 77%
- Two or more races 11%
- White (not Hispanic) 7.7%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.9%
Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Kinoshita
Kinoshita has the Soundex code K523, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K523.
Other Japanese surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Kinoshita come from?
- Borrowed from Japanese 木下 (Kinoshita).
- How common is the surname Kinoshita?
- 1,249 people in the United States had the surname Kinoshita in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 247,194 Americans. It ranked 21,048th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Kinoshita?
- In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Kinoshita identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 11% as two or more races.
- Is the surname Kinoshita getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,300 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,249 in 2010, down 3.9%.