Ever wondered what the Japanese equivalent of "Smith" is? Here is the list of the top 10 most common Japanese surnames. It is said that more than a hundred thousand different surnames exist in Japanese, but roughly speaking one out of every
ten Japanese has a surname that is listed here.
Click here to learn more about Japanese names. To see a list of the top 500 Japanese family names ordered by frequency, try here.
| 1 | Satou 佐藤 |
| 2 | Suzuki 鈴木 |
| 3 | Takahashi 高橋 |
| 4 | Tanaka 田中 |
| 5 | Watanabe 渡辺 |
| 6 | Itou 伊藤/伊東 |
| 7 | Nakamura 中村 |
| 8 | Yamamoto 山本 |
| 9 | Kobayashi 小林 |
| 10 | Saitou 斉藤/斎藤 |
I wonder what happened to Honda and Toyota?
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Grandma
And there used to be a teacher named 'Suzuki' around here too, I think. The other Japanese teacher is a Mori, I don't see that one. ;-)
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