Kato

Kato is the 7,132nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,515 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 66,200.

By the numbers

People: 4,515
Rank: 7,132nd
How common: 1 in 66,200
Per 100,000: 1.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Japanese

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Kato described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 62.7%
White, not Hispanic 17.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 8.5%
Black, not Hispanic 6.0%
Hispanic or Latino 5.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Kato

Hisashi Kato (born 1956)Japanese association football player and manager
Nobuyuki Kato (born 1920)Japanese association football player
Masaaki Kato (born 1958)Japanese association football player
Yoshio Kato (born 1957)Japanese association football player
Mitsuo Kato (born 1953)Japanese association football player
Tomoe Kato (born 1978)Japanese association football player
Sawao Katō (born 1946)Japanese artistic gymnast
Katō Takaaki (1860–1926)Japanese politician

People named Kato with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Kato

Katz
Kates

Also a first name

Kato has been given to 860 American babies as a first name since 1914, peaking in 2022. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.