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Japanese Surnames:
1,000 Common
Family Names of Japan
by David Lowen Govett
Japanese Surnames
Contents
PREFACE ....................................................................................................................... 3
BASIC PRONUNCIATION OF JAPANESE.................................................................... 3
SURNAMES OF JAPAN................................................................................................. 4
COMMON COMPONENTS OF SURNAMES ............................................................... 52
GLOSSARY .................................................................................................................. 57
Copyright 2003 Japanorama
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Japanese Surnames
Preface
Japanese names consist of a surname (i.e., family name), followed by a given name, but no
middle name. Japanese commoners were not allowed to use surnames until after the Meiji
Restoration of 1868, when they were allowed to create a surname or borrow an existing one.
The surname usually is written with two Chinese characters (kanji), which may or may not have
related meanings (e.g., , Yamamoto, base of the mountain). However, some surnames consist
of one or three or more characters.
Included in the following list, also, are two single-kanji Chinese surnames ( (Chin) and (Ri)),
which are used by Chinese immigrants to Japan and their descendants. (Incidentally, the worlds
most common surname is (Wang in Mandarin Chinese, Wong in Cantonese), which is used by
over 100,000,000 individuals.)
Because there are thousands of kanji, Japan has approximately 300,000 unique surnames. This
number exceeds those of all countries other than the United States, which is home to the
1,000,000+ superset of all the worlds names.
Although the results vary somewhat depending on the data surveyed, the ten most common
Japanese surnames usually are Sait, Suzuki, Takahashi, Tanaka, Watanabe, It, Yamamoto,
Nakamura, Kobayashi, and Sait (with a different initial kanji).
Beginning on the following page, 1,000 common Japanese names are listed in two tables, one in
English alphabetical order, the other in the official Japanese Industrial Standard order for kanji
(Chinese characters).
Basic Pronunciation of Japanese

The five Japanese vowels (a, i, u, e, o) are pronounced like those in Italian and Spanish (i.e.,
father, ink, tube, lan, over). A long (i.e., doubled) vowel is indicated by a macron ( ) over the
vowel.
The basic 19 consonants (b, ch, d, f, g, h, j, k, m, n, p, r, s, sh, t, ts, w, y, z) usually are
pronounced as in English.
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English Order
English
Kanji
Abe
Abe
Adachi
Adachi
Aida
Aida
Aihara
Aikawa
Aizawa
Aizawa
Akamatsu
Akasaka
Akashi
Akiba
Akimoto
Akimoto
Akita
Akiyama
Akutsu
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English
Abe
Akutsu
Abe
Ayabe
Yasui
Anzai
Anzai
Adachi
Yasuda
And
Izawa
It
It
Izawa
Yoda
Iguchi
Ide
Ide
Inoue
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Kanji
Amano
Amemiya
And
Anzai
Anzai
Aoki
Aono
Aoyagi
Aoyama
Arai
Arai
Arakawa
Araki
Ariga
Arima
Arita
Asada
Asai
Asakawa
Asakura
Asami
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Kanji
English
Ida
Isogai
Isozaki
Isobe
Isono
Ichiyanagi
Inagaki
Inamura
Inada
Inaba
Usami
Udagawa
Utsunomiya
Uno
Hatori
Amemiya
Usui
Usui
Urata
Urano
Kageyama
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Kanji
Asano
Asanuma
As
Ayabe
Azuma
Baba
Chiba
Chida
Chin
Deguchi
Doi
Ebihara
Egawa
Eguchi
Ehara
Enari
End
Enomoto
Et
Fujie
Fujii
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Kanji
English
Nagai
Nagayama
Nagase
Nagata
Nagashima
Nagano
Masuda
Ochi
Enomoto
Sonoda
Tyama
End
Shiokawa
Shiozawa
Shioda
Oku
Okuyama
Okumura
Okutsu
Okuda
Okuno
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Kanji
Fujikawa
Fujiki
Fujimaki
Fujimori
Fujimoto
Fujimura
Fujino
Fujioka
Fujisaki
Fujisawa
Fujisawa
Fujishima
Fujita
Fujiwara
Fukada
Fukai
Fukasawa
Fukase
Fukawa
Fukaya
Fukazawa
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Kanji
English
Yokoi
Yokomizo
Yokoyama
Yokokawa
Yokota
Yok
Oka
Okazaki
Okamura
Okada
Okabe
Okamoto
Okano
Ogihara
Ogiwara
Ogino
Onda
Shimoyama
Shimokawa
Shimomura
Shimoda
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Kanji
Fukuchi
Fukuda
Fukuhara
Fukui
Fukumoto
Fukunaga
Fukuoka
Fukushi
Fukushima
Fukushima
Fukuyama
Furukawa
Furusawa
Furuta
Furuya
Furuya
Fuse
Fushimi
Futami
Gomi
Got
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Kanji
English
Shimozato
Kase
Kat
Kan
Natsume
Kawahara
Kawai
Kasai
Kawamura
Kawada
Kawauchi
Kawamoto
Kawano
Kno
Hanai
Hanaoka
Hanada
Aida
Ebihara
Minagawa
Toyama
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Kanji
Haga
Hagiwara
Hamada
Hamada
Hamano
Hanada
Hanai
Hanaoka
Handa
Hara
Harada
Haraguchi
Hase
Hasebe
Hasegawa
Hashiguchi
Hashimoto
Hashizume
Hata
Hata
Hatakeyama
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Kanji
English
Kakanuma
Kakuta
Tsunoda
Kasai
Kasahara
Kaji
Kajiwara
Kasai
Kabaya
Kamata
Kamoshida
Mamiya
Seki
Sekido
Sekiguchi
Sekine
Sekiya
Sekimoto
Sekino
Maruyama
Kishi
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Kanji
Hatanaka
Hatano
Hatori
Hattori
Hayakawa
Hayano
Hayasaka
Hayashi
Hayashida
Hidaka
Higa
Higashi
Higuchi
Hino
Hirabayashi
Hiraga
Hirai
Hirakawa
Hiramatsu
Hiramoto
Hirano
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Kanji
English
Kishida
Kishimoto
Iwai
Iwanaga
Iwashita
Iwama
Iwasa
Iwasaki
Iwaki
Iwase
Iwasawa
Iwata
Iwamoto
Iwano
Iwabuchi
Iwasawa
Kamei
Kameyama
Kameda
Kikuchi
Kikuchi
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Kanji
Hirao
Hiraoka
Hirasawa
Hirasawa
Hirata
Hiratsuka
Hirayama
Hirose
Hirose
Hirota
Hirota
Hirukawa
Hiruta
Hishinuma
Hitomi
Hj
Honda
Honda
Honma
Hori
Horie
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Kanji
English
Kikuta
Yoshii
Yoshinaga
Yoshioka
Yoshihara
Yoshikawa
Yoshimura
Yoshizawa
Yoshida
Yoshimoto
Yoshino
Yoshizawa
Tachibana
Kume
Kubo
Kubodera
Kubota
Oikawa
Miyashita
Miyahara
Miyasaka
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Kanji
Horiguchi
Horii
Horikawa
Horikoshi
Horiuchi
Hosaka
Hoshi
Hoshina
Hoshino
Hosoda
Hosoi
Hosokawa
Hosono
Hosoya
Hotta
Ichihara
Ichikawa
Ichimura
Ichiyanagi
Ida
Ide
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Kanji
English
Miyazaki
Miyagi
Miyagawa
Miyakawa
Miyazawa
Miyata
Miyajima
Miyauchi
Miyamoto
Miyano
Miyazawa
Hashiguchi
Hashizume
Hashimoto
Tamai
Serizawa
Kond
Kanai
Kanayama
Kaneko
Kinj
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Kanji
Ide
Igarashi
Iguchi
Iida
Iijima
Iino
Iizuka
Ikeda
Ikegami
Ikeya
Imai
Imaizumi
Imamura
Inaba
Inada
Inagaki
Inamura
Inomata
Inomata
Inoue
Irie
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Kanji
English
Kanamori
Kanazawa
Kanaya
Kaneda
Kanazawa
Kubota
Kumakura
Kumazawa
Kumagai
Kumada
Kurihara
Kuriyama
Kurita
Kuribayashi
Kuwabara
Kuwahara
Karube
Yki
Hara
Haraguchi
Harada
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Kanji
Ishibashi
Ishida
Ishigaki
Ishiguro
Ishihara
Ishii
Ishikawa
Ishimaru
Ishino
Ishioka
Ishiwata
Ishiyama
Ishizaka
Ishizaki
Ishizuka
Isobe
Isogai
Isono
Isozaki
Itabashi
Itagaki
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Kanji
English
Furuya
Koga
Furukawa
Furusawa
Furuya
Furuta
Totsuka
Toda
Igarashi
Gomi
Got
Mukai
Kud
Hirose
Hirota
Ehara
Eguchi
Enari
Egawa
Et
Mizoguchi
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Kanji
Itakura
It
It
Iwabuchi
Iwai
Iwaki
Iwama
Iwamoto
Iwanaga
Iwano
Iwasa
Iwasaki
Iwasawa
Iwasawa
Iwase
Iwashita
Iwata
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Kanji
English
Kai
Arai
Arakawa
Araki
Kagawa
Takai
Takahashi
Takahara
Takasaki
Takayama
Takamatsu
Takase
Takamura
Takada
Takashima
Takagi
Takano
Izawa
Takayanagi
Izawa
Izumi
Izumi
Takanashi
Kuroiwa
Kurosaki
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Kanji
Jinbo
Kabaya
Kadokura
Kadowaki
Kagawa
Kageyama
Kai
Kaji
Kajiwara
Kakanuma
Kakuta
Kamata
Kameda
Kamei
Kameyama
Kamij
Kamimura
Kamiya
Kamiyama
Kamoshida
Kanai
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Kanji
English
Kuronuma
Kurokawa
Kurosawa
Kuroda
Kuroki
Kurosawa
Kon
Imai
Imaizumi
Imamura
Konno
Negishi
Nemoto
Konno
Sasaki
Sakuma
Sahara
Sagawa
Satake
Sat
Saeki
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Kanji
Kanamori
Kanaya
Kanayama
Kanazawa
Kanazawa
Kanbe
Kanda
Kaneda
Kaneko
Kanno
Kan
Kanzaki
Karube
Kasahara
Kasai
Kasai
Kasai
Kase
Kashima
Kashiwagi
Kasuga
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English
Sano
Zama
Sait
Hosoi
Hosokawa
Hosoya
Hosoda
Hosono
Sakai
Sakashita
Sakamoto
Sakaguchi
Sakata
Sakamoto
Sakakibara
Sakurai
Sakurada
Sasahara
Sasamoto
Mitsui
Miura
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Kanji
Kasuya
Katagiri
Katakura
Katano
Kataoka
Katayama
Kat
Katsumata
Katsuta
Kawabata
Kawabata
Kawabe
Kawada
Kawada
Kawaguchi
Kawahara
Kawahara
Kawai
Kawai
Kawai
Kawakami
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Kanji
English
Mitsuhashi
Mihara
Miyoshi
Saegusa
Mikami
Mimura
Miyake
Misawa
Mitani
Mita
Mishima
Miki
Mitome
Miwa
Yamaoka
Yamashita
Yamagishi
Yamagata
Yamamoto
Yamaguchi
Yamane
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Kanji
Kawamoto
Kawamoto
Kawamura
Kawamura
Kawana
Kawano
Kawano
Kawasaki
Kawase
Kawashima
Kawashima
Kawauchi
Kazama
Kida
Kidokoro
Kihara
Kijima
Kikuchi
Kikuchi
Kikuta
Kimoto
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Kanji
English
Yamasaki
Yamazaki
Yamamuro
Yamagami
Yamashiro
Yamakawa
Yamamura
Yamanaka
Yamada
Yamauchi
Yamamoto
Yamano
Ichihara
Ichikawa
Ichimura
Shiga
Shimura
Shida
Ujiie
Kodama
Terada
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Kanji
Kimura
Kinj
Kinoshita
Kishi
Kishida
Kishimoto
Kitagawa
Kitahara
Kitajima
Kitami
Kitamura
Kitano
Kitayama
Kitazawa
Kiuchi
Kiyota
Kobayashi
Kobori
Kodama
Kodama
Koga
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Kanji
English
Terashima
Terao
Mochida
Kashima
Shishido
Muroi
Urushibara
Shinohara
Shinozaki
Shinoda
Shibazaki
Shibayama
Shibata
Wakamatsu
Wakabayashi
Moriya
Tezuka
Sakai
Akimoto
Akiyama
Akita
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Kanji
Kogure
Koide
Koike
Koizumi
Kojima
Kojima
Kokubo
Komatsu
Komine
Komiya
Komiyama
Komori
Komuro
Kon
Kond
Konishi
Konno
Konno
Kno
Kosaka
Koseki
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Kanji
English
Akimoto
Akiba
Shibuya
Shigeta
Deguchi
Kasuga
Ogata
Morohoshi
Katsuta
Katsumata
Ogasawara
Koseki
Kokubo
Komiya
Komiyama
Kodama
Obara
Ohara
Kosaka
Koyama
Oyama
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Kanji
Kosuge
Kosugi
Kotani
Koyama
Koyanagi
Kubo
Kubodera
Kubota
Kubota
Kud
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Kanji
English
Osanai
Komuro
Koide
Komatsu
Onuma
Komori
Kosugi
Kosuge
Konishi
Ogawa
Kumada
Koizumi
Kumagai
Kumakura
Kumazawa
Kume
Kurahashi
Kuramochi
Kuramoto
Kurata
Kuribayashi
Kurihara
Ogura
Ozawa
Kotani
Koike
Oda
Odagiri
Kojima
Kojima
Obata
Obata
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Kanji
Kurita
Kuriyama
Kuroda
Kuroiwa
Kurokawa
Kuroki
Kuronuma
Kurosaki
Kurosawa
Kurosawa
Kusaka
Kusakabe
Kusama
Kusano
Kuwabara
Kuwahara
Machida
Maeda
Maehara
Maejima
Maekawa
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Kanji
English
Kogure
Komine
Kobori
Omata
Ogura
Ono
Onodera
Onozawa
Onoda
Koyanagi
Kobayashi
Ozawa
Shji
Matsui
Matsuura
Matsunaga
Matsuoka
Matsushita
Matsuhashi
Matsumoto
Matsubara
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Kanji
Maki
Makino
Makita
Mamiya
Maruyama
Masaki
Masuda
Masuda
Masui
Masuyama
Matsubara
Matsuda
Matsuhashi
Matsui
Matsukawa
Matsuki
Matsumoto
Matsumoto
Matsumura
Matsunaga
Matsuno
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Kanji
English
Matsuzaki
Matsuyama
Matsukawa
Matsumura
Matsuzawa
Matsuda
Matsushima
Matsuo
Matsumoto
Matsuki
Matsuno
Matsuzawa
Numata
Terui
Uehara
Uesugi
Kamimura
Uemura
Ueda
Ueno
Kamij
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Kanji
Matsuo
Matsuoka
Matsushima
Matsushita
Matsuura
Matsuyama
Matsuzaki
Matsuzawa
Matsuzawa
Meguro
Midorikawa
Mihara
Mikami
Miki
Mimura
Minagawa
Minami
Minato
Minowa
Misawa
Mishima
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Kanji
English
Kidokoro
Tokiwa
Uematsu
Uemura
Ueda
Ueki
Oda
Arai
Niikura
Nitta
Shinbori
Mori
Morioka
Morishita
Moriyama
Morikawa
Moriya
Morita
Morimoto
Fukai
Fukase
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Kanji
Mita
Mitani
Mitome
Mitsuhashi
Mitsui
Miura
Miwa
Miyagawa
Miyagi
Miyahara
Miyajima
Miyakawa
Miyake
Miyamoto
Miyano
Miyasaka
Miyashita
Miyata
Miyauchi
Miyazaki
Miyazawa
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Kanji
English
Fukasawa
Fukazawa
Fukaya
Fukada
Sanada
Kanbe
Kanzaki
Kamiyama
Kamiya
Kanda
Jinbo
Hata
Shind
Hitomi
Suwa
Sunaga
Suga
Suyama
Suda
Sud
Sut
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Kanji
Miyazawa
Miyoshi
Mizoguchi
Mizuguchi
Mizukami
Mizukoshi
Mizuno
Mizushima
Mizuta
Mizutani
Mochida
Mochizuki
Mogi
Momose
Mori
Mri
Morikawa
Morimoto
Morioka
Morishita
Morita
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Kanji
English
Mizukoshi
Mizuguchi
Mizukami
Mizutani
Mizuta
Mizushima
Mizuno
Sugiura
Sugihara
Sugizaki
Sugiyama
Sugimura
Sugita
Sugimoto
Sugino
Suga
Sugai
Sugahara
Sugawara
Suganuma
Sugaya
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Kanji
Moriya
Moriya
Moriyama
Morohoshi
Motohashi
Motoyama
Mukai
Murai
Murakami
Muraki
Murakoshi
Muramatsu
Murano
Muraoka
Murase
Murata
Murayama
Muroi
Mut
Nagai
Nagai
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Kanji
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Kanno
Sugano
Seto
Segawa
Seo
Naruse
Narita
Hoshi
Hoshino
Masaki
Shimizu
Kiyota
Seino
Nishi
Nishioka
Nishihara
Nishiyama
Nishikawa
Nishimura
Nishizawa
Nishida
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Kanji
Nagano
Nagano
Naganuma
Nagao
Nagaoka
Nagasaka
Nagasaki
Nagasawa
Nagasawa
Nagase
Nagase
Nagashima
Nagashima
Nagashima
Nagata
Nagata
Nagatsuka
Nagayama
Nagumo
Nait
Nakabayashi
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Kanji
English
Nishijima
Nishio
Nishimoto
Nishino
Nishizawa
Aoyama
Aoki
Aono
Aoyagi
Saita
Sait
Saiki
Ishii
Ishioka
Ishigaki
Ishimaru
Ishibashi
Ishihara
Ishiguro
Ishizaka
Ishizaki
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Kanji
Nakada
Nakagawa
Nakahara
Nakai
Nakajima
Nakajima
Nakamaru
Nakamoto
Nakamura
Nakamura
Nakane
Nakanishi
Nakano
Nakao
Nakashima
Nakata
Nakatani
Nakayama
Nakazato
Nakazawa
Nakazawa
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Ishiyama
Ishikawa
Ishizuka
Ishida
Ishiwata
Ishino
Akasaka
Akamatsu
Chida
Chiba
Kawai
Kawahara
Kawaguchi
Kawai
Kawasaki
Kawakami
Kawase
Kawamura
Kawabata
Kawada
Kawashima
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Kanji
Namiki
Nanba
Nara
Narita
Naruse
Nasu
Natori
Natsume
Negishi
Nemoto
Nihei
Niikura
Nikaid
Ninomiya
Nishi
Nishida
Nishihara
Nishijima
Nishikawa
Nishimoto
Nishimura
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Kanji
English
Kawashima
Kawabata
Kawabe
Kawamoto
Kawana
Kawano
Izumi
Asai
Asami
Asanuma
Asakawa
Asada
Asano
Someya
Maehara
Maekawa
Maeda
Maejima
Soga
Sone
Kurahashi
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Kanji
Nishino
Nishio
Nishioka
Nishiyama
Nishizawa
Nishizawa
Nitta
Niwa
Noda
Nogami
Noguchi
Nohara
Nojima
Nomoto
Nomura
Nonaka
Noro
Nozaki
Nozawa
Numata
ba
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Kanji
English
Kuramochi
Kurata
Kuramoto
Hayasaka
Hayakawa
Hayano
Aihara
Aikawa
Aizawa
Aida
Sma
Sagara
Aizawa
Kusama
Kusano
Masui
Masuyama
Masuda
Adachi
Murai
Murakoshi
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Kanji
ba
Obara
Obata
Obata
Ochi
Ochiai
Oda
Oda
Odagiri
Ogasawara
Ogata
Ogata
Ogawa
Ogihara
Ogino
Ogiwara
Ogura
Ogura
Ohara
hara
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Kanji
English
Muraoka
Murayama
Muramatsu
Murakami
Murase
Murata
Muraki
Murano
Tada
ta
i
koshi
kawara
nuki
zeki
kubo
hashi
kuma
hara
e
saki
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English Order
English
Kanji
hashi
hira
Oikawa
ishi
izumi
Oka
Okabe
Okada
Okamoto
Okamura
Okano
kawa
kawara
Okazaki
ki
koshi
Oku
kubo
Okuda
kuma
JIS Kanji Order

Kanji
English
yama
numa
shiro
ba
mori
nishi
ishi
kawa
izumi
kura
mura
taki
sawa
tani
take
tsu
tsuka
tsuki
tsubo
ba
ta
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English Order
English
Kanji
Okumura
Okuno
kura
Okutsu
Okuyama
Omata
mori
mura
Onda
nishi
Ono
no
Onoda
Onodera
Onozawa
nuki
Onuma
numa
Osada
saki
Osanai
JIS Kanji Order

Kanji
English
shima
shima
uchi
hira
ki
no
ya
tomo
wada
sawa
Takiguchi
Takizawa
Takimoto
Sawada
Tani
Taniguchi
Tanikawa
Tanimoto
Niwa
Tanno
Ikegami
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English Order
English
Kanji
sawa
sawa
shima
shima
shiro
ta
ta
take
taki
tani
tomo
tsu
tsubo
tsuka
tsuki
uchi
wada
ya
Oyama
yama
Ozaki
JIS Kanji Order

Kanji
English
Ikeya
Ikeda
Takeshita
Takemura
Takenaka
Takeda
Takeuchi
Takemoto
Nakai
Nakamaru
Nakahara
Nakane
Nakayama
Nakanishi
Nakagawa
Nakamura
Nakazawa
Nakatani
Nakada
Nakata
Nakajima
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English Order
English
Kanji
Ozawa
Ozawa
zeki
Ri
Saegusa
Saeki
Sagara
Sagawa
Sahara
Saiki
Saita
Sait
Sait
Sait
Sait
Sakaguchi
Sakai
Sakai
Sakakibara
Sakamoto
Sakamoto
JIS Kanji Order

Kanji
English
Nakashima
Nakajima
Nakao
Nakamoto
Nakano
Nakazato
Nakabayashi
Nakazawa
Nakamura
Inomata
Inomata
Asakura
Machida
Nagai
Nagaoka
Nagasaka
Nagasaki
Naganuma
Nagase
Nagasawa
Hase
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English Order
English
Kanji
Sakashita
Sakata
Sakuma
Sakurada
Sakurai
Sakurai
Sanada
Sano
Sasahara
Sasaki
Sasamoto
Satake
Sat
Sawada
Sawada
Segawa
Seino
Seki
Sekido
Sekiguchi
Sekimoto
JIS Kanji Order

Kanji
English
Hasegawa
Hasebe
Nagatsuka
Nagata
Osada
Nagashima
Nagashima
Nagao
Nagano
Nagasawa
Toriumi
Torii
Chin
Tsuda
Shiina
Tsukagoshi
Tsukahara
Tsukada
Tsukamoto
Tsuji
Tsubaki
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English Order
English
Kanji
Sekine
Sekino
Sekiya
Seo
Serizawa
Seto
Shibata
Shibayama
Shibazaki
Shibuya
Shida
Shiga
Shigeta
Shiina
Shima
Shimada
Shimada
Shimamura
Shimazaki
JIS Kanji Order

Kanji
English
Tsuboi
Tsuruoka
Tsurumi
Tsuruta
Tsutsumi
Amano
Soeda
Tamaru
Tahara
Taguchi
Tadokoro
Tagami
Tagawa
Tamura
Tashiro
Tazawa
Tanaka
Tajima
Tajima
Shimazu
Tabata
Shimizu
Tanabe
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English Order
English
Kanji
Shimoda
Shimokawa
Shimomura
Shimoyama
Shimozato
Shimura
Shinbori
Shind
Shinoda
Shinohara
Shinozaki
Shioda
Shiokawa
Shiozawa
Shirai
Shiraishi
Shirakawa
Shiratori
Shishido
Shji
Shji
JIS Kanji Order

Kanji
English
Tanabe
Watabe
Watanabe
Watanabe
Watanabe
Watanabe
Doi
Tsuchiya
Tsuchida
Shima
Shimazaki
Shimamura
Shimazu
Shimada
Shimada
Azuma
Higashi
Shji
Yuyama
Yukawa
Yuasa
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English Order
English
Kanji
Soeda
Soga
Sma
Someya
Sone
Sonoda
Suda
Sud
Suenaga
Suga
Suga
Sugahara
Sugai
Sugano
Suganuma
Sugawara
Sugaya
Sugihara
Sugimoto
Sugimura
Sugino
JIS Kanji Order

Kanji
English
Yumoto
Tsutsui
Fujii
Fujioka
Fujimaki
Fujiwara
Fujie
Fujisaki
Fujimori
Fujikawa
Fujimura
Fujisawa
Fujita
Fujishima
Fujimoto
Fujiki
Fujino
Fujisawa
Tokunaga
Tokuda
Nara
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English Order
English
Kanji
Sugita
Sugiura
Sugiyama
Sugizaki
Sunaga
Sut
Suwa
Suyama
Suzuki
Tabata
Tachibana
Tachibana
Tachikawa
Tada
Tadokoro
Tagami
Tagawa
Taguchi
Tahara
Taira
Tajima
JIS Kanji Order

Kanji
English
Nasu
Utsumi
Uchiyama
Uchimura
Uchida
Nait
Uchino
Minami
Nagumo
Nanba
Nikaid
Ninomiya
Futami
Nihei
Kusaka
Kusakabe
Hidaka
Hino
Irie
Hatano
Baba
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English Order
English
Kanji
Tajima
Takada
Takagi
Takahara
Takahashi
Takai
Takamatsu
Takamura
Takanashi
Takano
Takasaki
Takase
Takashima
Takayama
Takayanagi
Takeda
Takeda
Takei
Takemoto
Takemura
Takenaka
JIS Kanji Order

Kanji
English
Umehara
Umezawa
Umeda
Hagiwara
Kashiwagi
Shirai
Shiraishi
Shirakawa
Shiratori
Kasuya
Usui
Hata
Hatanaka
Hatakeyama
Yamaki
Yagi
Handa
Itagaki
Itabashi
Itakura
Iizuka
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English Order
English
Kanji
Takeshita
Takeuchi
Takeuchi
Takiguchi
Takimoto
Takizawa
Tamai
Tamaru
Tamura
Tanabe
Tanabe
Tanaka
Tani
Taniguchi
Tanikawa
Tanimoto
Tanno
Tashiro
Tateishi
Tazawa
Terada
JIS Kanji Order

Kanji
English
Iida
Iijima
Iino
Higa
Hirukawa
Tobita
Higuchi
Ogata
Ozaki
Hishinuma
Momose
Hiruta
Hamada
Hamano
Tominaga
Tomioka
Togashi
Tomizawa
Tomita
Tomita
Fuse
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English Order
English
Kanji
Terao
Terashima
Terui
Tezuka
Tobita
Toda
Togashi
Tokiwa
Tokuda
Tokunaga
Tominaga
Tomioka
Tomita
Tomita
Tomizawa
Torii
Toriumi
Totsuka
Toyama
Tyama
Toyoda
JIS Kanji Order

Kanji
English
Fukawa
Takei
Takeda
Mut
Takeuchi
Kazama
Fushimi
Hattori
Fukui
Fukunaga
Fukuoka
Fukuhara
Fukuyama
Fukushi
Fukuchi
Fukuda
Fukushima
Fukushima
Fukumoto
Taira
Hirai
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English Order
English
Kanji
Toyoshima
Tsubaki
Tsuboi
Tsuchida
Tsuchiya
Tsuda
Tsuji
Tsukada
Tsukagoshi
Tsukahara
Tsukamoto
Tsunoda
Tsurumi
Tsuruoka
Tsuruta
Tsutsui
Tsutsumi
Tsuyuki
Uchida
Uchimura
Uchino
JIS Kanji Order

Kanji
English
Hiraoka
Hiraga
Hirayama
Hiramatsu
Hirakawa
Hirasawa
Hiratsuka
Hirata
Hirao
Hiramoto
Hirano
Hirabayashi
Hirasawa
Namiki
Yoneyama
Yonekura
Yonezawa
Yoneda
Kataoka
Katagiri
Katayama
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English Order
English
Kanji
Uchiyama
Udagawa
Ueda
Ueda
Uehara
Ueki
Uematsu
Uemura
Uemura
Ueno
Uesugi
Ujiie
Umeda
Umehara
Umezawa
Uno
Urano
Urata
Urushibara
Usami
Usui
JIS Kanji Order

Kanji
English
Katakura
Katano
Hoshina
Hosaka
Yasuda
Haga
Toyoda
Toyoshima
Mochizuki
Kitami
Kitahara
Kitayama
Kitagawa
Kitamura
Kitazawa
Kitajima
Kitano
Hj
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Makita
Makino
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English Order
English
Kanji
Usui
Usui
Utsumi
Utsunomiya
Wada
Wakabayashi
Wakamatsu
Watabe
Watanabe
Watanabe
Watanabe
Watanabe
Yabe
Yabuki
Yagi
Yagishita
Yaguchi
Yajima
Yamada
Yamagami
Yamagata
JIS Kanji Order

Kanji
English
Hori
Horii
Horikoshi
Horiguchi
Horie
Horikawa
Hotta
Horiuchi
Honma
Motohashi
Motoyama
Honda
Honda
As
Suenaga
Minowa
Minato
Natori
Akashi
Mogi
Mri
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English Order
English
Kanji
Yamagishi
Yamaguchi
Yamakawa
Yamaki
Yamamoto
Yamamoto
Yamamura
Yamamuro
Yamanaka
Yamane
Yamano
Yamaoka
Yamasaki
Yamashiro
Yamashita
Yamauchi
Yamazaki
Yanagawa
Yanagi
Yanagida
Yanagihara
JIS Kanji Order

Kanji
English
Kinoshita
Kihara
Kimura
Kida
Kijima
Kiuchi
Kimoto
Meguro
Kadokura
Kadowaki
Nohara
Noguchi
Nozaki
Nogami
Nomura
Nozawa
Nonaka
Noda
Nojima
Nomoto
Noro
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English Order
English
Kanji
Yanagisawa
Yanagisawa
Yano
Yasuda
Yasuda
Yasui
Yazaki
Yazawa
Yoda
Yok
Yokoi
Yokokawa
Yokomizo
Yokota
Yokoyama
Yoneda
Yonekura
Yoneyama
Yonezawa
Yoshida
Yoshihara
JIS Kanji Order

Kanji
English
Yaguchi
Yazaki
Yabuki
Yazawa
Yajima
Yabe
Yano
Yanagi
Yagishita
Yanagihara
Yanagawa
Yanagisawa
Yanagida
Yanagisawa
Ariga
Arita
Arima
Ochiai
Ri
Tachibana
Tateishi
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English Order
English
Kanji
Yoshii
Yoshikawa
Yoshimoto
Yoshimura
Yoshinaga
Yoshino
Yoshioka
Yoshizawa
Yoshizawa
Yuasa
Yukawa
Yki
Yumoto
Yuyama
Zama
JIS Kanji Order

Kanji
English
Tachikawa
Midorikawa
Hayashi
Hayashida
Suzuki
Tsuyuki
Izumi
Wada
Hirose
Hirota
Sakurai
Sawada
Hamada
Sait
Sait
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Common Components of Surnames

As mentioned previously, Japanese surnames are composed of one or more kanji, the most
frequent of which are listed and translated in the following table. Although it does not explicitly
appear in the surnames listed, the Japanese hiragana character no (), which indicates the
possessive case, is implied in a few names (e.g., Kinoshita, ).
Kanji
Initial Character
Subsequent Character(s)
ichi
mitsu, mi
kami, ue
shimo
naka
maru
ku
i
ima, kon
ichi
gami, kami, ue
saka, shita
naka
maru
ku
i
shiro
i
sa
ho, yasu
kura
ko
ya
nai, uchi
mae
ka
kita
chi
hara
oi
ki
sa
bo
gura, kura
moto
nai, uchi
bara, hara, wara

guchi
furu, ko
ai, i
yoshi
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Meaning
one
3
upper, top
lower, below, base
middle
round
long time
(water) well
now
price, materials, substitution
that one
chief, count, uncle
assistance, help
protect, guarantee
warehouse
base, origin
child, young animal
8
inside, within, between, among
in front, before
addition, increase
north
1,000
field, plain
reach out, exert, cause
mouth
old
fit, suit, join
good luck, joy
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i, wa
do, tsuchi
saka
hori
tsuka
masu
ta
ama
oku
peace, harmony
earth, ground, soil
ground, earth
slope
moat, canal, ditch
location, place
mound, hillock
increase
many, much
large, great
heavens, sky
fat, thick
interior, heart
child
home, house
protect, guard, defend
peaceful, contented, quiet
Shinto shrine
wealth, abundance
(Buddhist) temple
small, little
tail, (mountain) ridge
roof, house, shop
mountain
hill
rock
coast, shore, beach
island
headland, cape
island
river
market, fair, city
flat, smooth
wide, spacious
after, behind, back
virtuous
wa
chi
saka, zaka
bori
ba
tsuka, zuka
da, ta
ko
yake
mori
a, an, yasu
miya
tomi
tera
ko, o
o
yama
oka
iwa
kishi
shima
shima
kawa
ichi
hira, taira
hiro
go
toku
miya
dera
o
ya
yama
oka
iwa
gishi
jima, shima
saki, zaki
jima, shima
gawa, kawa
toku
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or
shi
nari, naru
to
sai
sai
ara, nii, shin
haya
hoshi
tsuki
mochi
ki
hon, moto
sugi
mura
higashi
matsu
hayashi
kashiwa
yagi, yanagi
shiba
kuri
ne
sakura
mori
ue
yoko
hashi
take, mu
mizu
naga
e
ike
sawa
ka, kawa
numa
izumi
intention, plan, will

become, grow
door
equal, similar, equivalent
(religious) purification, Buddhist food
new
early, fast
star
moon
hope, desire
tree
main, real, present
Japanese cedar
village
east
pine
woods, forest
oak
willow
brushwood, firewood
chestnut
root
cherry tree, cherry blossom
forest
plant
side, horizontal
bridge
warrior, military
water
eternity, long
inlet, bay, creek
pond
marsh, swamp
river, stream
marsh, lake, swamp, pond
spring
shi
nari
to, do, be
zai
boshi
zuki
gi, ki
moto
sugi
mura
t
matsu
bayashi
yagi, yanagi
ne
mori
bashi, hashi
take
mizu
naga
e
chi, ike
sawa, zawa
kawa, gawa
numa
izumi
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tsu
asa
hama
ura
kiyo, sei, shi
shibu
wata
se
kuma
kata
maki
tama
ta
machi
hatake
shira
ai, saga, s
ya
ishi
jin, kami, kan
fuku
aki
ina
tachi
take
kasa
shi
yone
hoso
ha
usu
hana
waka
ara
ogi
kan, suga
port, harbor
shallow, superficial
beach, seashore
bay, inlet
pure, clear
astringent, hesitant, reluctant
transit, ferry, ford, cross
rapids, current, shallows, shoal
bear (animal)
one-sided, leaf, sheet
breed, care for, feed, shepherd
jewel, ball, coin
rice paddy
village, town, block, street
field, farm
white
together, mutual
arrow
stone
god
good fortune, wealthy
autumn
rice plant
stand (up)
bamboo
bamboo hat
small bamboo
rice
thin, narrow, slender
feather, wing
mortar
flower
young
rough, wild
reed
sedge
tsu, zu
asa
ura
wata
se
kuma
dama
da, ta
ya
shi, ishi
dachi
take
gasa
me
wa
bana
suge
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chrysanthemum
bush clover
fall, drop
leaf
wisteria
west
angle, corner
valley
plentiful, abundant
red
area, vicinity, border
crossing, crossroad
near, early
far, distant
section, part
sake (rice wine), alcohol
field, plain
gold, metal, money
bell
sickle, scythe
long
interval, space
barrier, gateway
green, blue
ought, necessarily, by all means
meal, food, boiled rice
horse
high
black
kiku
hagi
ochi
fuji
nishi
kaku, tsuno
tani
toyo
aka
be, nabe
tsuji
kon
en, t
ba
d, t
nishi, sai, zai
se, tani, ya
toyo
be
saka
no
kana, kane, kin
suzu
kama
naga
ma
seki
ao
su
ii
ba
taka
kuro
no
gane
ma
seki, zeki
su
ma
daka
guro
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Glossary
hiragana
JIS
kanji
macron
myji
namae
rmaji
sei
syllabary
cursive Japanese syllabary derived from kanji of the same sound

(literally, ordinary kana)
Japanese Industrial Standard ()
Chinese character (e.g., )

in rmaji, a horizontal line over a vowel to indicate that it has a
long sound (e.g., Tky).

or surname, family name
given name, name
Latin alphabet used to transliterate Japanese (literally, Roman

characters) (Usually implies the widely used Hepburn
romanization system.)
surname, family name
a set of symbols that represents the syllablesrather than the
alphabetof a language
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