List of common Japanese surnames information

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 33%.^[3]

This ranking is a result of an August 2008 study by Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company,^[3] which included approximately 6,118,000 customers of Meiji Yasuda's insurance and annuities.

Rank	Name	Romanization	Estimated Number (2008)	Occupation Rate (%)
1	佐藤	Satō	1,990,000	1.57
2	鈴木	Suzuki	1,900,000	1.50
3	高橋	Takahashi	1,470,000	1.16
4	田中	Tanaka	1,340,000	1.06
5	渡辺	Watanabe	1,200,000	0.95
6	伊藤	Itō	1,150,000	0.91
7	中村	Nakamura	1,080,000	0.85
8	小林	Kobayashi	1,060,000	0.84
9	山本	Yamamoto	1,020,000	0.81
10	加藤	Katō	920,000	0.73
11	吉田	Yoshida	850,000	—
12	山田	Yamada	820,000	—
13	佐々木	Sasaki	710,000	—
14	山口	Yamaguchi	640,000	—
15	松本	Matsumoto	630,000	—
16	井上	Inoue	600,000	—
17	木村	Kimura	580,000	—
18	清水	Shimizu	560,000	—
19	林	Hayashi	550,000	—
20	斉藤	Saitō	530,000	—
21	斎藤	Saitō	520,000	—
22	山崎	Yamazaki Yamasaki	490,000	—
23	中島	Nakajima Nakashima	480,000	—
24	森	Mori	470,000	—
25	阿部	Abe	470,000	—
26	池田	Ikeda	450,000	—
27	橋本	Hashimoto	450,000	—
28	石川	Ishikawa	440,000	—
29	山下	Yamashita	410,000	—
30	小川	Ogawa	410,000	—
31	石井	Ishii	400,000	—
32	長谷川	Hasegawa	390,000	—
33	後藤	Gotō	390,000	—
34	岡田	Okada	380,000	—
35	近藤	Kondō	370,000	—
36	前田	Maeda	370,000	—
37	藤田	Fujita	370,000	—
38	遠藤	Endō	360,000	—
39	青木	Aoki	350,000	—
40	坂本	Sakamoto	350,000	—
41	村上	Murakami	340,000	—
42	太田	Ōta	320,000	—
43	金子	Kaneko	310,000	—
44	藤井	Fujii	310,000	—
45	福田	Fukuda	300,000	—
46	西村	Nishimura	300,000	—
47	三浦	Miura	300,000	—
48	竹内	Takeuchi	290,000	—
49	中川	Nakagawa	290,000	—
50	岡本	Okamoto	290,000	—
51	松田	Matsuda	290,000	—
52	原田	Harada	290,000	—
53	中野	Nakano	290,000	—
54	小野	Ono	280,000	—
55	田村	Tamura	280,000	—
56	藤原	Fujiwara Fujihara	270,000	—
57	中山	Nakayama	270,000	—
58	石田	Ishida	270,000	—
59	小島	Kojima	260,000	—
60	和田	Wada	260,000	—
61	森田	Morita	250,000	—
62	内田	Uchida	250,000	—
63	柴田	Shibata	250,000	—
64	酒井	Sakai	240,000	—
65	原	Hara	240,000	—
66	高木	Takagi Takaki	240,000	—
67	横山	Yokoyama	240,000	—
68	安藤	Andō	240,000	—
69	宮崎	Miyazaki Miyasaki	240,000	—
70	上田	Ueda Ueta	240,000	—
71	島田	Shimada	230,000	—
72	工藤	Kudō	230,000	—
73	大野	Ōno	220,000	—
74	宮本	Miyamoto	220,000	—
75	杉山	Sugiyama	220,000	—
76	今井	Imai	220,000	—
77	丸山	Maruyama	210,000	—
78	増田	Masuda	210,000	—
79	高田	Takada Takata	210,000	—
80	村田	Murata	210,000	—
81	平野	Hirano	210,000	—
82	大塚	Ōtsuka	210,000	—
83	菅原	Sugawara Sugahara	210,000	—
84	武田	Takeda Taketa	200,000	—
85	新井	Arai	200,000	—
86	小山	Koyama Oyama	200,000	—
87	野口	Noguchi	200,000	—
88	桜井	Sakurai	200,000	—
89	千葉	Chiba	200,000	—
90	岩崎	Iwasaki	200,000	—
91	佐野	Sano	200,000	—
92	谷口	Taniguchi	200,000	—
93	上野	Ueno	200,000	—
94	松井	Matsui	190,000	—
95	河野	Kōno Kawano	190,000	—
96	市川	Ichikawa	190,000	—
97	渡部	Watanabe Watabe	190,000	—
98	野村	Nomura	180,000	—
99	菊地	Kikuchi	180,000	—
100	木下	Kinoshita	180,000	—

^ 日本苗字大辞典 [Japanese Surname Dictionary]. 芳文館 [Houbunkan]. 1996. ISBN 4990058402.
^ Wolfgang Hadamitzky, ed. (2016). Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Surnames and How to Read Them. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110969887.
^ ^a ^b "明治安田生命全国同姓調査 [Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company - National same family name investigation]" (PDF) (Press release). Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company. 2008-09-24. Retrieved 2012-05-30.

[japan1-1] 日本苗字大辞典 [Japanese Surname Dictionary]. 芳文館 [Houbunkan]. 1996. ISBN 4990058402.

[2] Wolfgang Hadamitzky, ed. (2016). Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Surnames and How to Read Them. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110969887.

[japan2-3] "明治安田生命全国同姓調査 [Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company - National same family name investigation]" (PDF) (Press release). Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company. 2008-09-24. Retrieved 2012-05-30.

List of common Japanese surnames information

and 23 Related for: List of common Japanese surnames information

List of common Japanese surnames

List of common Chinese surnames

List of most common surnames in Asian countries

Lists of East Asian surnames

List of most common surnames in South American countries

East Asian name

Vietnamese name

Surnames by country

Cornish surnames

Korean name

Hundred Family Surnames

Welsh surnames

Japanese name

List of most popular given names

List of common misconceptions

Chinese Indonesian surname

Portuguese name

Surname

Chinese surname

Manx surnames

Jewish name

List of kanji radicals by frequency

Common quail