Common
Surnames
In Japan
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According to a web page of Family Names in Japan (written in Japanese) by Mr. Hiroshi Morioka, the most common family names in each prefecture are as follows:
| Prefecture | Best 1 | Best 2 | Best 3 | Best 4 | Best 5 |
| Hokkaido | Sato | Takahashi | Suzuki | Sasaki | Ito |
| Aomori | Kudo | Sato | Sasaki | Kimura | Narita |
| Iwate | Sasaki | Sato | Takahashi | Chiba | Kikuchi |
| Miyagi | Sato | Takahashi | Suzuki | Sasaki | Abe |
| Akita | Sato | Takahashi | Sasaki | Ito | Suzuki |
| Yamagata | Sato | Takahasi | Suzuki | Saito | Ito |
| Fukushima | Sato | Suzuki | Watanabe | Saito | Endo |
| Ibaraki | Suzuki | Sato | Kobayashi | Watanabe | Takahashi |
| Tochigi | Suzuki | Watanabe | Sato | Saito | Kobayashi |
| Gunma | Takahashi | Kobayashi | Sato | Arai | Saito |
| Saitama | Suzuki | Arai | Takahashi | Sato | Saito |
| Chiba | Suzuki | Sato | Watanabe | Takahashi | Nakamura |
| Tokyo | Suzuki | Sato | Takahashi | Tanaka | Watanabe |
| Kanagawa | Suzuki | Sato | Takahashi | Kobayashi | Watanabe |
| Niigata | Sato | Watanabe | Kobayashi | Takahashi | Saito |
| Toyama | Yamamoto | Hayashi | Yoshida | Nakamura | Yamazaki |
| Ishikawa | Yamamoto | Nakamura | Tanaka | Yoshida | Yamada |
| Fukui | Tanaka | Yamamoto | Yoshida | Yamada | Kobayashi |
| Yamanashi | Watanabe | Kobayashi | Mochizuki | Shimizu | Fukazawa |
| Nagano | Kobayashi | Maruyama | Tanaka | Nakamura | Ito |
| Gifu | Kato | Ito | Yamada | Hayashi | Watanabe |
| Shizuoka | Suzuki | Watanabe | Mochizuki | Sugiyama | Yamamoto |
| Aichi | Suzuki | Kato | Ito | Yamada | Yamamoto |
| Mie | Ito | Tanaka | Nakamura | Yamamoto | Suzuki |
| Shiga | Tanaka | Yamamoto | Nakamura | Nishimura | Yamada |
| Kyoto | Tanaka | Yamamoto | Nakamura | Inoue | Yoshida |
| Osaka | Tanaka | Yamamoto | Inoue | Nakamura | Yamada |
| Hyogo | Tanaka | Yamamoto | Kobayashi | Inoue | Nakamura |
| Nara | Yamamoto | Tanaka | Yoshida | Nakamura | Matsumoto |
| Wakayama | Yamamoto | Tanaka | Nakamura | Matsumoto | Maeda |
| Tottori | Tanaka | Yamamoto | Yamane | Matsumoto | Maeda |
| Shimane | Tanaka | Yamamoto | Sasaki | Fujiwara | Hara |
| Okayama | Yamamoto | Miyake | Fujiwara | Sato | Tanaka |
| Hiroshima | Yamamoto | Fujii | Takahashi | Tanaka | Sato |
| Yamaguchi | Yamamoto | Tanaka | Nakamura | Fujii | Ito |
| Tokushima | Sato | Yoshida | Kondo | Mori | Tanaka |
| Kagawa | Oonishi | Tanaka | Takahashi | Yamashita | Yamamoto |
| Ehime | Murakami | Takahashi | Ochi | Yamamoto | Watanabe |
| Kochi | Yamamoto | Yamasaki | Komatsu | Hamada | Takahashi |
| Fukuoka | Tanaka | Nakamura | Inoue | Koga | Yamamoto |
| Saga | Yamaguchi | Tanaka | Koga | Matsuo | Nakajima |
| Nagasaki | Yamaguchi | Tanaka | Nakamura | Matsuo | Matsumoto |
| Kumamoto | Nakamura | Tanaka | Matsumoto | Murakami | Sakamoto |
| Oita | Sato | Goto | Ono | Watanabe | Abe |
| Miyazaki | Kuroki | Kai | Kawano | Hidaka | Sato |
| Kagoshima | Nakamura | Yamashita | Tanaka | Maeda | Hamada |
| Okinawa | Higa | Kinjo | Oshiro | Miyagi | Arakaki |
Sato, Ito, Kato .... sometimes spelled as Satou, Itou, Katou,.... or Satoh, Itoh, Katoh....and the same kind of spelling problem is included in this list, because the family name is defined in Kanji form without kana, and because of the diversity of kana translation.
This information translated by Yuji Murakami.
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