Rice cultivation was introduced to Japan during the Yayoi period.
After that, if rice cultivation developed and the number of rice fields increased, the number of villages increased in various places, and the central village was Nakamura.
Then, depending on the direction of the newly created village, place names such as Higashimura, Nishimura, Ichimura, Kitamura, Uemura, and Shimomura were created, and along with that, the surname also occurred.
In fact, there are nearly 700 places of residence called Nakamura nationwide, and there are more than 200 historical place names, and Mr. Nakamura originated from most of them.
Japanese American Surname Ranking (U.S. Census Bureau, 1990 Survey)
| Surname | Kanji | Supplement | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tanaka |  |
4th in Japan |
| 2 | Yamamoto |   |
8th in Japan |
| 3 | Nakamura |   ・・・ |
7th in Japan |
| 4 | Watanabe |   ・・・ |
6th in Japan |
| 5 | Sato |  |
1st in Japan |
| 6 | Yamada |  |
12th in Japan |
| 7 | Kimura |  (written vertically) |
17th in Japan |
| 8 | Suzuki |   (written vertically) |
2nd in Japan |
| 9 | Kato |  |
10th in Japan |
| 10 | Yoshida |  |
11th in Japan |
| 11 | Takahashi |  |
3rd in Japan |
| 12 | Higa |  |
1st in Okinawa, Japan |
| 13 | Kobayashi |  |
9th in Japan |
| 14 | Nakano |   ・・・ |
46th in Japan |
| 15 | Hayashi |  |
20th in Japan |
| 16 | Hashimoto |  |
24th in Japan |
| 17 | Saito |   ・・・ |
19th in Japan |
| 18 | Sasaki |  |
13th in Japan |
| 19 | Mori |   ・・・ |
22th in Japan |
| 20 | Matsumoto |  (written vertically)  |
15th in Japan |
