Sakamoto

Sakamoto is the 11,673rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,571 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 116,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,571
Rank: 11,673rd
How common: 1 in 116,000
Per 100,000: 0.86

Where the name comes from

Origin Japanese

Borrowed from Japanese 坂本.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 76.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 12.1%
White, not Hispanic 6.7%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.08%

Notable people called Sakamoto

Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952–2023)Japanese composer
Sakamoto Ryōma (1836–1867)Japanese samurai and politician
Riho Sakamoto (born 1992)Japanese association football player
Kyū Sakamoto (1941–1985)Japanese singer and actor
Kaori Sakamoto (born 2000)Japanese figure skater
Masataka Sakamoto (born 1978)Japanese association football player
Maaya Sakamoto (born 1980)Japanese voice actress
Koji Sakamoto (born 1978)Japanese association football player

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

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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.