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The KATO surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,591 6769 0.002 17
United States (1880 census) 54 47142 0 1
Change since 1880 +4537 +40373 +N/A +16
Other Countries
Australia 20 51931 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for KATO by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,618 2221 0.005 48
Hawaii 513 136 0.042 423
Washington 295 2864 0.005 50
New York 224 9747 0.001 12
Florida 207 10107 0.001 13
Top States for KATO by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Hawaii 513 136 0.042 423
Alaska 34 2994 0.005 54
Washington 295 2864 0.005 50
California 1,618 2221 0.005 48
Montana 30 5275 0.003 33

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called KATO live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called KATO represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called KATO in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a KATO by picking someone at random in Hawaii than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of KATO

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: Japan

Language of origin: Japanese

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the KATO surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of KATO in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 809 17.62
Mixed Race 262 5.71
Black/African American 198 4.31
White (Hispanic) 177 3.86
Native American/Alaskan 22 0.48
Asian/Pacific 3,123 68.02

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the KATO surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of KATO in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of KATO.

Similar names to KATO

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KATO.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for KATO

The following words are slight variants of KATO that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.