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Japanese people have two names, a surname and a given name. Thesurname is usually inherited from the father, and women usually changetheir surname to the husband's upon marriage.

In Japanese, the surname comes before the given name. Thus, a personwith surname Yamamoto and given name Sanae is referred to asYamamoto Sanae. In the name order of English, this would be'Sanae Yamamoto'.

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Japanese names are usually written in kanji (Chinese characters, seeKanji). Surnames are almost always in kanji. Given names areusually in kanji. Some given names are in hiragana or katakana (seeHiragana and katakana).

Japanese people do not have middle names, and middle names are notrecognized in Japan, except for foreigners. See Do Japanese people have middle names?

Surnames

There are a great number of surnames in Japan. The Enamdict electronicdictionary of Japanese names contains more than 138,500 surnames.^[1]

Surnames are usually written in kanji (Chinese characters). Typicalsurnames have two characters. For example Suzuki (鈴木) orYamamoto (山本). They may also have only one kanji, likeHara (原) or Tokoro (所), or more than two.

Most surnames are relatively easy to read, but there may be more thanone way to read the same kanji spelling. For example 中田 may be readeither as Nakata or Nakada. Some are very difficult, suchas 八月一日, which appears to readhachigatsu tsuitachi, 'the first of August', but is readHozumi.

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Some Japanese use traditional forms of characters intheir surnames rather than the modern simplified forms (seeWhy do some kanji have alternative forms?).

Many surnames are also place names, and the rules for forming namesfollow similar patterns.

Some of the typical kanji used in surnames are

Romanization	Kanji	Meaning	Examples
asa	浅	shallow	Asada (浅田), the surname of figure skater Mao Asada
mae	前	front	Maeda (前田), the surname of idol Atsuko Maeda
yoko	横	side	Yokoyama (横山), the tyre manufacturer
nishi	西	west	Nishikawa (西川), the surname of comedian and politician Kiyoshi Nishikawa
kita	北	north	Kitano (北野), the surname of film director and comedian'Beat Takeshi'.
kuro	黒	black	Kurosawa (黒澤), the surname of film director Akira Kurosawa, famous for 'Seven Samurai', meaning 'black swamp'
iwa	岩	rock	岩谷 (Iwatani), the surname of Toru Iwatani, video game designer who created 'Pac-Man'
ishi	石	stone	Ishibashi (石橋) 'stone bridge', the name of the founder of the 'Bridgestone' company
matsu	松	pine	Matsumoto (松本) 'under the pine tree', the surname of pop star Jun Matsumoto of Arashi and Kiyoshi Matsumoto, founder of the drug store chain 'Matsumoto Kiyoshi'.
sugi	杉	cedar
take	竹	bamboo
ki	木	tree	Kinoshita (木下)
ita	板	board
yone	米	rice	Yonekura (米倉) 'rice store', the surname of model andcelebrity Ryoko Yonekura.
hayashi, bayashi	林	woods	Kobayashi (小林), 'small woods', the name of a famousJapanese physicist, Nobel prize winner in 2008.
ue, kami	上	upper	Murakami (村上), the surname of novelists Haruki Murakami and Ryu Murakami.
shita, shimo	下	lower	Matsushita (松下), 'under the pine tree', the common surname and name of the big electronics company.
hashi, bashi	橋	bridge	Hashimoto (橋本), 'near the bridge', the surname of the ex-prime minister Ryutaro Hashimoto.
mori	森	forest	Morita (森田) 'forest rice field', the surname of Akio Morita, founder of Sony.
tsuka	塚	mound	Tezuka (手塚), 'hand mound', the surname of comics artist Osamu Tezuka.
mizu	水	water	Mizutani (水谷), the husband and wife authors of Japanesetextbooks.
moto	本, 元	near	Morimoto (森本), 'near the forest'
naka	中	in	Nakata (中田), 'in the rice field', the surname of the professional footballer
uchi	内	in
yama	山	mountain	Yamamoto (山本), 'near the mountain'
oka	丘, 岡	hill	Okada (岡田)
saka	坂	slope	Sakamoto (坂本), the surname of Ryuichi Sakamoto, the musician
no	野	plain	Noguchi (野口), the surname of Hideo Noguchi, the scientist featured on 1,000 yen banknotes.
ike	池	pond	Koike (小池), 'small pond', the surname of celebrity Eiko Koike.
kawa	川	river	Kawabata (川端), 'river edge', the surname of novelist Yasunari Kawabata, who wrote 'Snow Country'.
tani	谷	valley	Tanizaki (谷崎), 'valley edge', the surname of novelistJunichiro Tanizaki.
sawa, zawa	沢 (澤)	creek	Ozawa (小澤), 'small creek', the surname of conductor Seiji Ozawa.