Appendix:Japanese surnames

This list of Japanese surnames is meant to complement the contents of Category:Japanese surnames. Surnames without disambiguation pages or articles will be red-links.

Top 15[edit]

Name		Rank			Regions/Prefectures	Place of origin
Romaji	Kanji (or Kana)	2014 (Forebears)	2010 (University of Shizuoka)	2008 (Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company, National Last Name Investigation)	Regions/Prefectures	Place of origin
Sato	佐藤	1	1	1	Hokkaido and Tohoku (especially Akita Prefecture)
Suzuki	鈴木	2	2	2	Aichi Prefecture (especially Mikawa), Shizuoka Prefecture, south Kanto, and Tohoku	Kainan, Wakayama Prefecture
Tanaka	田中	3	5	4	Nationwide, but mostly in western Japan Osaka Prefecture, San'in region, Fukuoka Prefecture, Kanto Region (especially Iruma ang Hiki, both in Saitama Prefecture), and Hokkaido
Takahashi	高橋	4	3	3	Tohoku (especially Kitakami, Iwate Prefecture) and central Shikoku
Watanabe	渡辺	5	4	5	Nationwide southern part of eastern Japan, Shizuoka Prefecture, Yamanashi Prefecture, Nagoya (Chukyo) area, Kyushu (especially Oita Prefecture)	Chuo Ward, Osaka
Nakamura	中村	6	8	7	West Japan (especially Kansai (Kinki) and Kyushu regions)
Yamamoto	山本	7	7	9	West Japan (especially Hokuriku and San'yo regions), Saitama Prefecture, and Shizuoka Prefecture
Kobayashi	小林	8	9	8	Kanto, Shin'etsu (Nagano Prefecture and Niigata Prefecture), Kansai (Kinki), and Chugoku regions
Ito	伊藤	9	6	6
Yamada	山田	10	13	12
Saito	斎藤, 斉藤	11	10	20, 21
Kato	加藤	12	11	10
Yoshida	吉田	13	12	11
Inoue	井上	14	17	16
Hayashi	林	15	19	19