The surname Morimoto
A Japanese surname, carried by 1,291 people in the United States.
4 syllables Soundex M653
Origin
Japanese origin
Borrowed from Japanese 森本.
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 1,291 people named Morimoto in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 239,152 Americans. That is down 2.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,318.
Who is named Morimoto
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
78% of people named Morimoto identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 12% as two or more races and 5.7% as white (not Hispanic).
- Asian and Pacific Islander 78%
- Two or more races 12%
- White (not Hispanic) 5.7%
- 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 Morimoto
Morimoto has the Soundex code M653, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M653.
Other Japanese surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Morimoto come from?
- Borrowed from Japanese 森本.
- How common is the surname Morimoto?
- 1,291 people in the United States had the surname Morimoto in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 239,152 Americans. It ranked 20,541st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Morimoto?
- In the 2010 Census, 78% of people named Morimoto identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 12% as two or more races.
- Is the surname Morimoto getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,318 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,291 in 2010, down 2.0%.