Please add a last name and meaning
山城 mountain castle
Please add a last name and meaning
山城 mountain castle
Please be so nice and stop using all caps for everything. Thank you
If you’d like to play with surnames, here are the 100 most common surnames in Japan in 2008, according to Wikipedia:
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 |
From the name list you can also see that the names often don’t have literal meanings (although they are often related to locations where people were living, like parts of town or Shinto shrines), but use the kanji for phonetic (reading) purposes only.
For example 佐藤 is not “assistant wisteria”
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