What is the most common Japanese Last name?

Answer 1

In the Kanto (Tokyo) area, I believe Suzuki is the most common. In the Kansai (Osaka) area, Tanaka is the most common.

Other common Japanese surnames:

Nakano
Honda
Yamamoto
Nakamura
Kobayashi
Fujii
Inoue (especially in Kansai)
Ito
Watanabe
Nakamura
Ono

Answer 2

relies upon on the place you're. some names are extra complication-loose in specific places than others. Yamada, Yamaguchi, Sasaki, Tanaka, Nakae, Omori, Oda, Nakamura, Mori, Miyake, Okamoto, Kasahara, Fujii, Aoyama, Akiyama, Ishii, Inoue, Ogawa, Fukushima, Yamamoto, Fujiwara, Nishi, Ueda, Yamashita, Namba, Ishida, Kobayashi, Suzuki there are distinctive names in Japan.

Answer 3

Uhm, my friends last name is Wong, and my other friend has the same last name, and thier both Japanese, but not related.

Answer 4

"The most common names from Tokyo northwards are Sato and Suzuki; the most common names from Kyoto and Osaka southwards are Yamamoto and Tanaka."

Answer 5

no idea........but not wong, that's chinese. whole different country,2d.

usually japanese names are quite long, like takahara or yamanaka. but i knew an oka that was japanese. maybe it was changed from okahara or something.

Answer 6

Smif

Answer 7

I hear the last name Ito a lot.

Answer 8

satoo.
I heard that if you go into any japanese classroom and shout "satoosan" at least one person will say "hai!"
watanabe is common too I think

Answer 9

At one time I heard it was "Wong". Good luck. 2D