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The SATO surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,864 4726 0.003 25
United States (1880 census) 20 73727 0 0
Change since 1880 +6844 +69001 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 31 37458 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for SATO by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 2,293 1831 0.007 68
Hawaii 1,492 28 0.123 1,231
New York 388 6522 0.002 20
Washington 338 2856 0.006 57
Illinois 248 6838 0.002 20
Top States for SATO by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Hawaii 1,492 28 0.123 1,231
California 2,293 1831 0.007 68
Washington 338 2856 0.006 57
Nevada 113 2762 0.006 57
Idaho 72 3353 0.006 56

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

Classification and Origin of SATO

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 SATO 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 SATO in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 463 6.75
Mixed Race 431 6.28
White (Hispanic) 345 5.03
Black/African American 28 0.41
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.09
Asian/Pacific 5,591 81.45

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

Meaning of SATO in historical publications

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

Similar names to SATO

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SATO.

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 SATO

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