List taken from: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2009/10/11/lifestyle/japans-top-100-most-common-family-names/#.VWpw0M9VhBc
Abe
Ando
Aoki
Arai
Chiba
Endo
Fujii
Fujimoto
Fujita
Fujiwara
Fukuda
Goto
Hara
Harada
Hasegawa
Hashimoto
Hayashi
Hirano
Ikeda
Imai
Inoue
Ishida
Ishii
Ishikawa
Ito
Iwasaki
Kaneko
Kato
Kikuchi
Kimura
Kinoshita
Kobayashi
Kojima
Kondo
Kubo
Kudo
Maeda
Maruyama
Masuda
Matsuda
Matsui
Matsumoto
Matsuo
Miura
Miyamoto
Miyazaki
Mori
Morita
Murakami
Murata
Nakagawa
Nakajima
Nakamura
Nakano
Nakayama
Nishimura
Noguchi
Nomura
Ogawa
Ohno
Okada
Okamoto
Onishi
Ono
Ota
Otsuka
Saito
Saito (different kanji)
Sakai
Sakamoto
Sakurai
Sano
Sasaki
Sato
Shibata
Shimizu
Sugawara
Sugimoto
Sugiyama
Suzuki
Takada
Takagi
Takahashi
Takeda
Takeuchi
Tamura
Tanaka
Taniguchi
Uchida
Ueda
Ueno
Wada
Watanabe
Yamada
Yamaguchi
Yamamoto
Yamashita
Yamazaki
Yokoyama
Yoshida
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Surnames For Your Characters
Non-FictionHaving trouble coming up with a last name for your character? You've come to the right place! Here is a list of the most popular surnames from around the world! The U.S., the U.K., France, Germany, and many more to come! Take a look!
