Tanaka

At the 2020 census, 7,304 Americans bore the surname Tanaka — 4,706th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 40,900.

By the numbers

People: 7,304
Rank: 4,706th
How common: 1 in 40,900
Per 100,000: 2.4

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 Tanaka described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 76.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 11.3%
White, not Hispanic 7.7%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.07%

Notable people called Tanaka

Koichi Tanaka (born 1959)Japanese chemist
Marcus Tulio Tanaka (born 1981)Japanese association football player
Tatsuya Tanaka (born 1982)Japanese association football player
Kakuei Tanaka (1918–1993)Japanese politician
Makoto Tanaka (born 1975)Japanese association football player and manager
Ao Tanaka (born 1998)Japanese association football player
Junya Tanaka (born 1987)Japanese association football player
Shinji Tanaka (born 1960)Japanese association football player and manager

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

Surnames like Tanaka

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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.