The surname Matsumoto
A Japanese surname, carried by 4,486 people in the United States.
4 syllables Soundex M325
Origin
Japanese origin
Borrowed from Japanese 松本 (まつもと, Matsumoto).
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 4,486 people named Matsumoto in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 68,824 Americans. That is down 0.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,520.
Who is named Matsumoto
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
79% of people named Matsumoto identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 10% as two or more races and 6.0% as white (not Hispanic).
- Asian and Pacific Islander 79%
- Two or more races 10%
- White (not Hispanic) 6.0%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.3%
Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Matsumoto has the Soundex code M325, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M325.
Other Japanese surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Matsumoto come from?
- Borrowed from Japanese 松本 (まつもと, Matsumoto).
- How common is the surname Matsumoto?
- 4,486 people in the United States had the surname Matsumoto in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 68,824 Americans. It ranked 7,421st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Matsumoto?
- In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Matsumoto identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 10% as two or more races.
- Is the surname Matsumoto getting more or less common?
- Less common. 4,520 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,486 in 2010, down 0.8%.