Most popular 500 Japanese surnames

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28673
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28378
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23121
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22586
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22185
22140
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19148
18991
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18714
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18607
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18446
18230
18182
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17189
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16659
16594
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16314
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16197
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16109
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15873
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15832
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15739
15709
15667
15513
15511
15509
15203
15169
15119
15106
15031
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13593
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13512
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13285
13092
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13070
12995
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12931
12915
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12573
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12280
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12072
12048
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11966
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11946
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11915
11893
11795
11757
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11306
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11185
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10369
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Translated from Japanese: http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~suzakihp/index40.html

se surnames
Common pronunciation
Satou
Suzuki
Takahashi
Tanaka
Watanabe
Itou
Yamamoto
Nakamura
Ohayashi
Kobayashi
Katou
Kichida
Yoshida
Yamada
Sasaki
Yamaguchi
Matsumoto
Ine
Inoue
Saitou
Kimura
Hayashi
Rin
Kiyomizu
Shimizu
Yamasaki
Ikeda
Abe
Mori
Hashimoto
Yamashita
Ishikawa
Nakashima
Maeda
Fujita
Ogawa
Kokawa
Okada
Gatou
Gotou
Hasegawa
Hayagawa

Notes:

1) You will need Japanese fonts installed to be a

this file. Follow the instructions here if you wish

http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/xp/three/inte03.

2) These statistics are taken from this Japanese

http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~suzakihp/index40.html

3) These statistics are based on a survey of 70%

4) Names are ranked in order of the frequency o

is based on the kanji used to make the name, no

5) Where there is a joint listing, it means that on

common pronunications.

6) Each kanji name will often have several less c

that are not listed here but can be seen in Japan

7) You can get a list of the top 10,000 names fro

file (in Japanese).

8) The author of the above site estimates that th

kanji names in use in Japan, of which he has app

Samurakami
Murakami
Kondou
Chikafuji
Ishii
Sakamoto
Endou
Aoki
Fujii
Nishimura
Fukuda
Oota
Miura
Fujihara
Okamoto
Matsuda
Saitou
Nakagawa
Nakano
Harada
Ono
Kono
Sanu
Takeuchi
Tamura
Kaneko
Wada
Nakayama
Ishida
Ageda
Ueda
Kamida
Jouda
Morita
Hara
Shibata
Sakai
Sakei
Kudou
Kodou
Yokoyama
Miyazaki
Miyamoto
Uchida
Kouki
Takaki

Andou
Taniguchi
Oono
Imai
Maruyama
Kouda
Takata
Kawano
Kouno
Fujimoto
Ojima
Kojima
Takeda
Murata
Agano
Ueno
Sugiyama
Masuda
Sugahara
Hirano
Oyama
Koyama
Ootsuka
Kubo
Chiba
Matsui
Iwasaki
Noguchi
Matsuo
Kishita
Kikuchi
Nomura
Sano
Watanabe
Arai
Shini
Nii
Sugimoto
Oonishi
Sakurai
Kogawa
Furukawa
Ichikawa
Shimada
Komatsu
Kouno

Takano
Mizuno
Kichikawa
Yoshikawa
Yamauchi
Nishida
Kikuchi
Saikawa
Nishikawa
Kitamura
Hamada
Ikarashi
Yasuda
Nakada
Kawaguchi
Hirata
Heida
Kawasaki
Azuma
Tou
Higashi
Iida
Honda
Kubota
Yoshimura
Tsuji
Kan
Seki
Nakanishi
Fukushima
Iwata
Hatsutori
Toiguchi
Higuchi
Kawakami
Matsuoka
Nagai
Yamanaka
Taguchi
Morimoto
Yano
Akiyama
Tsuchiya
Ishihara
Matsushita
Umaba

Baba
Oohashi
Yoshioka
Matsuura
Oike
Koike
Asano
Ookubo
Kumagai
Kumatani
Araki
Noda
Kawamura
Hoshino
Hirose
Ootani
Kurota
Ozaki
Tanabe
Eida
Nagata
Matsumura
Bouzuki
Mochizuki
Motsuzuki
Hori
Naitou
Kanno
Sugano
Nishiyama
Ooshima
Hirai
Iwamoto
Katayama
Sawada
Honma
Hayakawa
Yokota
Arai
Okazaki
Kamuta
Ooishi
Narita
Oda
Koda
Miyata

Ishibashi
Sutou
Shinohara
Hagiwara
Kouyama
Takayama
Konishi
Kurihara
Matsubara
Itou
Miyake
Fukui
Ozawa
Kozawa
Nan
Minami
Oomori
Okumura
Kataoka
Uchiyama
Kuhabara
Kuwabara
Oka
Takuda
Tomita
Sekiguchi
Matsunaga
Okuta
Kitakawa
Koga
Uenohara
Kamihara
Hagi
Yagi
Kino
Yoshino
Shiraishi
Imamura
Kawashima
Uemura
Kamimura
Jouon
Koizumi
Nakao
Aoyama
Hirayama

Makino
Terada
Shibutani
Okamura
Kodama
Sakaguchi
Kaai
Kawai
Ooyama
Daisen
Oota
Tada
Onodera
Miyashita
Ogura
Kokura
Takeda
Chikuda
Adachi
Ogasahara
Amano
Tenno
Murayama
Sakai
Sai
Nishi
Sugiura
Sakata
Ohara
Kohara
Toyota
Kawamura
Koumura
Taketou
Butou
Mutou
Kakuta
Sumita
Shinoda
Suitani
Mizutani
Nemoto
Memoto
Sekine
Morishita
Nakai

Kanda
Kouda
Tashima
Ueda
Tsukamoto
Sakuma
Iitsuka
Meshizuka
Maekawa
Abe
Asai
Yamane
Shirai
Shiroi
Hakui
Hirai
Miyakawa
Okabe
Oosawa
Ookawa
Daikawa
Osada
Chouda
Nagata
Horiuchi
Inagaki
Wakabayashi
Matsusaki
Enomoto
Moriyama
Kamitani
Kouya
Shintani
Nakazawa
Eguchi
Nakatani
Hatakeyama
Koku
Tani
Hazama
Oikawa
Oyokawa
Shikikawa
Hosokawa
Mikami
Imano

Konno
Nishio
Adachi
Tashiro
Iijima
Ishizuka
Tsuda
Kishimoto
Arakawa
Nakahara
Nagao
Tsuchii
Doi
Honda
Morikawa
Miyoshi
Toda
Kanai
Komeda
Maida
Yoneda
Inaba
Okano
Muramatsu
Matsuyama
Saiki
Sahaku
Nishioka
Kai
Hoshi
Nakashima
Iwai
Kuroki
Tsutsumi
Kanada
Kaneda
Nozaki
Ochiai
Hotsuda
Izumi
Nishino
Chouda
Machida
Saitou
Yamagishi
Arata

Shinden
Niita
Koda
Furuta
Tokunaga
Kurokawa
Takisawa
Kawata
Yamakawa
Sugita
Tsuchida
Toda
Kasahara
Kanazawa
Okuyama
Sangi
Miki
Suda
Umeta
Murai
Nonaka
Horie
Ootake
Kawabata
Oomura
Kishi
Hidaka
Kajihara
Hirota
Fujisawa
Nishimoto
Iguchi
Mukai
Ooki
Ooba
Matsushima
Takenaka
Sakakihara
Fujikawa
Yoshimoto
Kawahara
Yasui
Ouchi
Oouchi
Takeshita
Yoshihara

Fujioka
Shiyouji
Tsukada
Fukumoto
Yanagisawa
Takashima
Otani
Kotani
Fujimura
Kunai
Miyauchi
Takemoto
Tanikawa
Yagawa
Uno
Ogata
Okuno
Miyazawa
Kubota
Shimoda
Kitano
Kurita
Ishikuno
Kamei
Chouno
Nagano
Tairakawa
Hirakawa
Fujino
Miyanohara
Miyabara
Nagashima
Kawamoto
Shigeki
Moki
Moteki
Sanwa
Miwa
Shitamura
Yamamura
Tanba
Niwa
Takai
Kotani
Furutani
Yoshizawa

Aoyagi
Takemura
Ideguchi
Deguchi
Ogino
Shimada
Komori
Kurosawa
Tahara
Tawara
Takase
Inada
Ooki
Oogusuku
Daijou
Susui
Tsutsui
Fukuoka
Yokoi
Oohira
Ohira
Taihei
Miyagi
Oohara
Fukunaga
Hayashida
Shinosaki
Tominaga
Nagaoka
Mizokuchi
Kanausuku
Kanegi
Kinjou
Yamaoka
Hiramatsu
Kitahara
Asada
Echi
Ochi
Kochi
Tsuruta
Takei
Yanagita
Nagano
Oota
Daita

Nishizawa
Irie
Yuasa
Nagasawa
Souma
Ishiyama
Sonoda
Takamatsu
Horikawa
Ninomiya
Nimiya
Usui
Tazuka
Tezuka
Numata
Kawano
Kouno
Ishizaki
Fukasawa
Hanada
Higa
Hiyoshi
Ikegami
Shinoda
Hiraoka
Tanimoto
Koide
Sugihara
Negishi
Saibara
Nishihara
Kasai
Seto
Tabata
Nozawa
Katagiri
Hamaguchi
Ootsuki
Shimura
Aizawa
Yajima
Osaka
Kosaka
Kurata
Hino
Fukuhara

Kanou
Senda
Chida
Horiguchi
Araya
Shintani
Niiya
Kawahara
Gouhara
Matsuno
Murase
Tokuta
Kan
Suga
Taue
Tagami
Morioka
Tomita
Yoshii
Kashiwagi
Hakugi
Shimasaki
Kitajima
Hamasaki
Hamano
Uchiumi
Utsumi
Shirakawa
Nakamoto
Hatakenaka
Iwase
Oyanagi
Koyanagi
Akimoto
Sanya
Mitani
Oosaki
Daisaki
Akita
Haraguchi

s.biglobe.ne.jp/~suzakihp/index40.html

nese fonts installed to be able to read the kanji in

structions here if you wish to install this font set:

m/office/ork/xp/three/inte03.htm

e taken from this Japanese page:

e.jp/~suzakihp/index40.html

e based on a survey of 70% of Japanese households.

in order of the frequency of occurrence. This

used to make the name, not on the pronunciation.

int listing, it means that one kanji compound has two

ill often have several less common pronunications

e but can be seen in Japanese on the site above.

f the top 10,000 names from the above site as a pdf

bove site estimates that there are just over 100,000

Japan, of which he has apparently surveyed about 99,000.