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Officially, among Japanese names there are 291,129 different Japanese surnames (姓, sei), [1] as determined by their kanji, although many of these are pronounced and romanized similarly. Conversely, some surnames written the same in kanji may also be pronounced differently. [2] The top 10 surnames cover approximately 10% of the population, while the top 100 surnames cover slightly more than ...
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Japanese names are usually written in kanji, although some names use hiragana or even katakana, or a mixture of kanji and kana. While most "traditional" names use kun'yomi (native Japanese) kanji readings, a large number of given names and surnames use on'yomi (Chinese-based) kanji readings as well. Many others use readings which are only used in names (nanori), such as the female name Nozomi ...
Lists of East Asian surnames include common Chinese, Japanese, and Korean surnames, or family names. List of common Chinese surnames.
Suzuki (written: 鈴木 lit. "bell wood", "bell tree" or "bud tree") is a Japanese surname. As of 2008, it is the second most common surname in Japan, after Satō, with 1.9 million people registered. [1] It is said to have been named by the Hozumi clan (穂積氏) in the Heian period (794-1185), after suzuki, which means "the ears of rice piled up" in the dialect of southern Wakayama and Mie ...
This article contains lists of the most common surnames in some of the countries of Asia, in alphabetical order of the country.
Satō (Japanese: 佐藤, pronounced [saꜜtoː], English: / ˈsɑːtoʊ / SAH-toh) is the most common Japanese surname, [2] often romanized as Sato, Satou or Satoh. A less common variant for a pen name is 佐島. Hiroshi Yoshida, a professor at Tohoku University, suggested in 2024 that if current trends continue all people in Japan will have the surname Sato by 2531, as married couples are ...
Katō (surname) Look up kato or 加藤 in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Katō, Kato, Katou or Katoh (加藤, characters for "add/increase" and "wisteria") is the 10th most common Japanese surname. [1]