Watanabe

5,949 people in the United States were counted with the surname Watanabe in the 2020 census, making it the 5,628th most common in the country. That is about one person in 50,200.

By the numbers

People: 5,949
Rank: 5,628th
How common: 1 in 50,200
Per 100,000: 2.0

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 76.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 12.1%
White, not Hispanic 7.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.08%

Notable people called Watanabe

Ken Watanabe (born 1959)Japanese actor
Masashi Watanabe (1936–1995)Japanese association football player and manager
Kazuma Watanabe (born 1986)Japanese association football player
Yanosuke Watanabe (died 1999)Japanese association football player
Takeshi Watanabe (born 1972)Japanese association football player
Yoshiichi Watanabe (born 1954)Japanese association football player
Mitsuo Watanabe (born 1953)Japanese association football player
Tsuyoshi Watanabe (born 1997)Japanese association football player

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

Surnames like Watanabe

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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.