The surname Tamura
A Japanese surname, carried by 2,040 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex T560
Origin
Japanese origin
Borrowed from Japanese 田村 (Tamura).
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 2,040 people named Tamura in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 151,346 Americans. That is up 4.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,951.
Who is named Tamura
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
71% of people named Tamura identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 14% as two or more races and 12% as white (not Hispanic).
- Asian and Pacific Islander 71%
- Two or more races 14%
- White (not Hispanic) 12%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
- Black (not Hispanic) 1.0%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Tamura
Tamura has the Soundex code T560, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T560.
Other Japanese surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Tamura come from?
- Borrowed from Japanese 田村 (Tamura).
- How common is the surname Tamura?
- 2,040 people in the United States had the surname Tamura in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 151,346 Americans. It ranked 14,591st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Tamura?
- In the 2010 Census, 71% of people named Tamura identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 14% as two or more races.
- Is the surname Tamura getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,951 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,040 in 2010, up 4.6%.