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Nakamura

Nakamura in brushed Kanji

Suzuki is the 8th most common Japanese surname.
Rice cultivation was introduced to Japan during the Yayoi period.
After that, if rice cultivation developed and the number of rice fields increased, the number of villages increased in various places, and the central village was Nakamura.
Then, depending on the direction of the newly created village, place names such as Higashimura, Nishimura, Ichimura, Kitamura, Uemura, and Shimomura were created, and along with that, the surname also occurred.
In fact, there are nearly 700 places of residence called Nakamura nationwide, and there are more than 200 historical place names, and Mr. Nakamura originated from most of them.
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Ranked by surname (family name) in Japan.

RankingSurnameapproximate number of persons
1stSato1,853,000
2ndSuzuki1,786,000
3rdTakahashi1,399,000
4thTanaka1,326,000
5thIto1,065,000
6thWatanabe1,055,000
7thYamamoto1,041,000
8thNakamura1,037,000
9thKobayashi1,021,000
10thKato882,000
11thYoshida823,000
12thYamada808,000
13thSasaki665,000
14thYamaguchi638,000
15thMatsumoto622,000
16thInoue610,000
17thKimura571,000
18thHayashi541,000
19thSaito538,000
20thShimizu529,000