Japanese Names Translation

Translating Japanese names

Romanization of Japanese names is easy, but translating a Japanese name back to its original form with the correct probabilities is hard. There are many Kanji variants for a single Japanese name in its romanized form.

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Japanese surnames

This table is misleading, as one romanized name doesn't corresponds exactly
to one Japanese name in Kanji - there can be many variants.

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	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	—

Most common Japanese given names

Here are the most frequent names given to babies in Japan in 2020
according to nippon.com

	Male Japanese names	Female Japanese names
1	Haruto	Honoka
2	Minato	Akari
3	Haruki	Himari
4	Sōta	Mei
5	Yūto	Ema
6	Riku	Yui
7	Yuito	Mio
8	Aoto	Ichika
9	Aoi	Aoi
10	Hinata	Tsumugi

As there are multiple original Kanji names (including variants) for a same romanized name, the order differs when looking at the most frequent male Japanese name or the most frequent female Japanese name.

	Male Japanese names		Female Japanese names
		Main variant		Main variant
1	蓮	Ren	陽葵	Himari
2	陽翔	Haruto	芽依	Mei
3	湊	Minato	陽菜	Hina
4	悠真	Yūma	結愛	Yua
5	蒼	Sō	結菜	Yūna
6	樹	Itsuki	さくら	Sakura
7	大翔	Hiroto	あかり	Akari
8	颯	Sō	葵	Aoi
9	大和	Yamato	紬	Tsumugi
10	湊斗	Minato	莉子	Riko
10	碧	Aoi

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