Mori significa foresta in Kanji, Hiragana e Katakana

This word has two main uses.

One is to mean “forest.”

There is a kanji character using the character for “Ki” (木) that means “Hayashi” (林). Both “森” and ‘林’ mean “forest,” but those who realize that the different kanji characters actually mean different things are very astute.
In Japanese, “林” refers to a group of trees planted through afforestation, while “森” refers to a group of trees that have grown naturally, including both coniferous and deciduous trees.

Hello, Mr. Mori. This is an explanation of the origin of the surname Mori, which is shared by your ancestors and friends.

Japan is a country with an extremely high population density, as most of the land is either mountainous or coastal, leaving little flat land for housing.
Since there are many mountains, there were also many forests, and this surname originates from the terrain, with roots in various regions. It is believed that people who lived in areas with many natural forests, untouched by human hands, began to adopt this surname during that era.
It ranks 22nd among Japanese surnames and 19th among Japanese-American surnames.

Classifica dei cognomi nippo-americani (indagine dell'Ufficio del Censimento degli Stati Uniti, 1990)

Mori ranks 19th in this ranking.

	Cognome	Kanji	Supplemento
1	Tanaka		4° in Giappone
2	Yamamoto		8° in Giappone
3	Nakamura	・・・	7° in Giappone
4	Watanabe	・・・	6° in Giappone
5	Sato		Primo in Giappone
6	Yamada		12° in Giappone
7	Kimura	(scritto in verticale)	17° in Giappone
8	Suzuki	(scritto in verticale)	Secondo in Giappone
9	Kato		10° in Giappone
10	Yoshida		11° in Giappone
11	Takahashi		3° in Giappone
12	Higa		Primo posto a Okinawa , in Giappone.
13	Kobayashi		9° in Giappone
14	Nakano	・・・	46° in Giappone
15	Hayashi		20° posto in Giappone
16	Hashimoto		24° in Giappone
17	Saito	・・・	19° in Giappone
18	Sasaki		13° in Giappone
19	Mori	・・・	22° in Giappone
20	Matsumoto	(scritto in verticale)	15° in Giappone