Tanaka

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Takahashi in brushed Kanji

Tanaka is the 4th most common Japanese surname.
The etymology is for rice fields and cultivation. It is said that when a small village was formed, “Tanaka” was created as a place name. It is believed that the powers who managed and occupied the rice fields on all sides called themselves “Tanaka” and the surname “Tanaka” spread throughout the country.
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Classificação por sobrenome (nome de família) no Japão.

Classificação Sobrenome número aproximado de pessoas
Sato 1,853,000
Suzuki 1,786,000
Takahashi 1,399,000
Tanaka 1,326,000
Ito 1,065,000
Watanabe 1,055,000
Yamamoto 1,041,000
Nakamura 1,037,000
Kobayashi 1,021,000
10º Kato 882,000
11º Yoshida 823,000
12º Yamada 808,000
13º Sasaki 665,000
14º Yamaguchi 638,000
15º Matsumoto 622,000
16º Inoue 610,000
17º Kimura 571,000
18º Hayashi 541,000
19º Saito 538,000
20th Shimizu 529,000