Yamamoto

At the 2020 census, 6,961 Americans bore the surname Yamamoto — 4,916th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 42,900.

By the numbers

People: 6,961
Rank: 4,916th
How common: 1 in 42,900
Per 100,000: 2.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Japanese

Borrowed from Japanese 山本, meaning "(one who lives at) the base of the mountain(s)" or "(one from) Yamamoto District".

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 77.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 10.7%
White, not Hispanic 6.3%
Hispanic or Latino 5.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.03%

Notable people called Yamamoto

Isoroku Yamamoto (1884–1943)Japanese Marshal Admiral
Masakuni Yamamoto (born 1958)Japanese association football player and manager
Shuto Yamamoto (born 1985)Japanese association football player
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe (1852–1933)Prime Minister of Japan
Emi Yamamoto (born 1982)Japanese association football player
Sakon Yamamoto (born 1982)Japanese racecar driver
Kaito Yamamoto (born 1985)Japanese association football player
Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1659–1719)samurai

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

Surnames like Yamamoto

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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.