The surname Nagata
A Japanese surname, carried by 1,461 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex N230
Origin
Japanese origin
Borrowed from Japanese 永田 (Nagata) or Japanese 長田 (Nagata).
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 1,461 people named Nagata in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 211,325 Americans. That is up 5.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,382.
Who is named Nagata
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
71% of people named Nagata identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 15% as white (not Hispanic) and 9.2% as two or more races.
- Asian and Pacific Islander 71%
- White (not Hispanic) 15%
- Two or more races 9.2%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.5%
Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Nagata
Nagata has the Soundex code N230, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code N230.
Other Japanese surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Nagata come from?
- Borrowed from Japanese 永田 (Nagata) or Japanese 長田 (Nagata).
- How common is the surname Nagata?
- 1,461 people in the United States had the surname Nagata in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 211,325 Americans. It ranked 18,766th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Nagata?
- In the 2010 Census, 71% of people named Nagata identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 15% as white (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Nagata getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,382 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,461 in 2010, up 5.7%.