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    Japanese surnames

    123 surnames that come from Japanese, ordered by how many people carry them in the United States, starting with Tanaka, Nakamura, Yamamoto.

    #SurnameUS rankPeople in the US
    1 Tanaka 4,439 7,994
    2 Nakamura 4,633 7,658
    3 Yamamoto 4,702 7,547
    4 Sato 4,956 7,095
    5 Watanabe 5,605 6,204
    6 Suzuki 6,438 5,274
    7 Kato 6,461 5,257
    8 Takahashi 6,839 4,928
    9 Ito 7,644 4,344
    10 Mori 7,831 4,228
    11 Yamada 7,461 4,467
    12 Saito 7,613 4,367
    13 Matsumoto 7,421 4,486
    14 Yoshida 8,046 4,113
    15 Kimura 8,164 4,059
    16 Higa 8,398 3,940
    17 Kobayashi 8,568 3,845
    18 Goto 9,803 3,302
    19 Sasaki 10,046 3,206
    20 Oshiro 10,155 3,177
    21 Hayashi 10,683 2,992
    22 Kan 10,647 3,005
    23 Abe 10,837 2,938
    24 Yamaguchi 10,931 2,912
    25 Murakami 11,174 2,830
    26 Hashimoto 11,637 2,694
    27 Sakamoto 11,478 2,741
    28 Ryu 11,543 2,723
    29 Shimizu 11,960 2,613
    30 Ikeda 11,716 2,675
    31 Hara 11,998 2,603
    32 Inouye 11,821 2,647
    33 Fujimoto 12,082 2,580
    34 Kondo 12,238 2,542
    35 Yamashita 12,500 2,480
    36 Kaneshiro 12,732 2,424
    37 Sakai 13,334 2,287
    38 Nakagawa 12,696 2,431
    39 Nishimura 12,732 2,424
    40 Okamoto 12,944 2,373
    41 Ono 14,050 2,143
    42 Nakano 13,583 2,232
    43 Maeda 13,855 2,181
    44 Miyamoto 13,967 2,159
    45 Yamasaki 14,296 2,094
    46 Fujii 14,139 2,125
    47 Ota 14,920 1,984
    48 Hamada 15,033 1,965
    49 Tamura 14,591 2,040
    50 Matsuda 14,604 2,038
    51 Okada 14,893 1,987
    52 Harada 14,656 2,030
    53 Aoki 15,833 1,838
    54 Morita 14,902 1,986
    55 Ogawa 15,508 1,887
    56 Nakata 15,912 1,826
    57 Oda 16,327 1,765
    58 Nakamoto 16,295 1,770
    59 Fujita 16,662 1,719
    60 Ishikawa 16,833 1,696
    61 Nakashima 16,975 1,674
    62 Masuda 16,993 1,672
    63 Wada 16,716 1,712
    64 Endo 17,151 1,652
    65 Sano 16,993 1,672
    66 Miyashiro 17,005 1,671
    67 Arakaki 17,182 1,648
    68 Fukuda 17,896 1,562
    69 Inoue 19,425 1,391
    70 Araki 18,703 1,469
    71 Hasegawa 17,927 1,559
    72 Shimabukuro 18,579 1,484
    73 Yoshimura 18,601 1,481
    74 Hirata 18,614 1,479
    75 Nakayama 18,734 1,465
    76 Nagata 18,766 1,461
    77 Nomura 18,835 1,453
    78 Kawamoto 19,567 1,379
    79 Ogata 19,306 1,402
    80 Miura 20,099 1,329
    81 Noda 19,590 1,377
    82 Taniguchi 20,565 1,289
    83 Kawasaki 21,237 1,235
    84 Kawamura 20,088 1,330
    85 Ishida 20,172 1,322
    86 Tomita 20,806 1,269
    87 Takeda 21,524 1,213
    88 Okamura 20,985 1,254
    89 Hirano 21,080 1,246
    90 Morimoto 20,541 1,291
    91 Nishimoto 20,829 1,267
    92 Kono 21,553 1,211
    93 Kinoshita 21,048 1,249
    94 Murata 21,048 1,249
    95 Shibata 21,105 1,244
    96 Ando 22,749 1,126
    97 Yokoyama 21,459 1,218
    98 Yamauchi 21,736 1,197
    99 Fujiwara 24,531 1,019
    100 Kaneko 22,963 1,114
    101 Matsui 23,852 1,059
    102 Uchida 22,301 1,156
    103 Tanabe 22,319 1,155
    104 Higashi 22,404 1,149
    105 Nakasone 22,516 1,142
    106 Nishida 22,689 1,130
    107 Yoshioka 22,770 1,125
    108 Shiroma 23,019 1,110
    109 Fukushima 23,432 1,085
    110 Tamashiro 23,634 1,073
    111 Arakawa 24,608 1,015
    112 Yamane 23,785 1,063
    113 Imai 23,852 1,059
    114 Asato 24,159 1,041
    115 Matsumura 24,404 1,026
    116 Furukawa 24,531 1,019
    117 Yamashiro 24,608 1,015
    118 Matsuoka 24,736 1,008
    119 Sako 38,850 568
    120 Hojo
    121 Saka 40,976 532
    122 Ida 41,038 531
    123 Yamagata 46,404 459