Sato

At the 2020 census, 6,266 Americans bore the surname Sato — 5,372nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 47,700.

By the numbers

People: 6,266
Rank: 5,372nd
How common: 1 in 47,700
Per 100,000: 2.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Japanese

Borrowed from Japanese 佐藤.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 76.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 10.6%
White, not Hispanic 7.1%
Hispanic or Latino 5.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Sato

Eisaku Satō (1901–1975)Prime Minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972
Hisato Sato (born 1982)Japanese association football player
Yūto Satō (born 1982)Japanese association football player
Hiroaki Sato (1932–1988)Japanese association football player
Choei Sato (born 1951)Japanese association football player
Yoshiaki Sato (born 1969)Japanese association football player
Takuma Sato (born 1977)Japanese race car driver
Harue Sato (born 1976)Japanese association football player

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

Surnames like Sato

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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.