Japan’s most common family names list
According to the Japan times, Japan has more than 100,000 family names now in use in today. That is more than the 200 in Korea and comparable to the the few thousands in China but still behind the US which has around million surnames.
Can you guess which are the most common family names in Japan? Here are the top 100 most common Japanese family names these days
- Sato
- Suzuki
- Takahashi
- Tanaka
- Watanabe
- Ito
- Yamamoto
- Nakamura
- Kobayashi
- Kato
- Yoshida
- Yamada
- Sasaki
- Yamaguchi
- Saito
- Matsumoto
- Inoue
- Kimura
- Hayashi
- Shimizu
- Yamazaki
- Mori
- Abe
- Ikeda
- Hashimoto
- Yamashita
- Ishikawa
- Nakajima
- Maeda
- Fujita
- Ogawa
- Goto
- Okada
- Hasegawa
- Murakami
- Kondo
- Ishii
- Saito (different kanji)
- Sakamoto
- Endo
- Aoki
- Fujii
- Nishimura
- Fukuda
- Ota
- Miura
- Fujiwara
- Okamoto
- Matsuda
- Nakagawa
- Nakano
- Harada
- Ono
- Tamura
- Takeuchi
- Kaneko
- Wada
- Nakayama
- Ishida
- Ueda
- Morita
- Hara
- Shibata
- Sakai
- Kudo
- Yokoyama
- Miyazaki
- Miyamoto
- Uchida
- Takagi
- Ando
- Taniguchi
- Ohno
- Maruyama
- Imai
- Takada
- Fujimoto
- Takeda
- Murata
- Ueno
- Sugiyama
- Masuda
- Sugawara
- Hirano
- Kojima
- Otsuka
- Chiba
- Kubo
- Matsui
- Iwasaki
- Sakurai
- Kinoshita
- Noguchi
- Matsuo
- Nomura
- Kikuchi
- Sano
- Onishi
- Sugimoto
- Arai
Source: Japantimes
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February 20th, 2011 at 10:37 am
Thank you for providing the list of last names of Japanese. Sometime when I read Japanese names I don’t know which are the family names and which are the first names