Sakamoto

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/sɑkɑˈmoʊtoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Sakamoto is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Japanese 坂本 (Sakamoto).

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 54K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 121K
  • FIFinland1 in 180K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

3,907 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
40 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SakamotoLatin(measured from records)
ซากาโมโตThai(measured from records)

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Borrowed from Japanese 坂本 (Sakamoto).

Sources 1

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sakamoto counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Sakamoto is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil3,9071 in 54K3.9K——
US United States2,7411 in 121K2.8KSakamoto5
AR Argentina681 in 669K68——
ES Spain471 in 1.1M47——
FI Finland311 in 180K31——
DK Denmark161 in 367K16——

3,907 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Sakamoto Ryoma, b. 1836Sumiko Sakamoto, b. 1936Kyū Sakamoto, b. 1941Ryuichi Sakamoto, b. 1952Junji Sakamoto, b. 1958Chika Sakamoto, b. 1959Yūji Sakamoto, b. 1967Koichi Sakamoto, b. 1970Maaya Sakamoto, b. 1980Hitomi Obara, b. 1981

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalSakamoto様Dear Sakamoto-san, (English)
Informalこんにちは、SakamotoさんHi Sakamoto, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 21 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Sakamoto
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—3.9K#2,744
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.8K#10,548
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.7K#11,478
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.6K#11,673
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—68—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—47#46,835
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—47#46,316
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—31#34,162
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—16#27,968
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Sakamoto mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Japanese 坂本 (Sakamoto). Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Sakamoto?
A machine transcription gives /sɑkɑˈmoʊtoʊ/ (IPA) for Japanese.
In which country does Sakamoto have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 3.9 thousand people named Sakamoto, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Sakamoto most common?
Sakamoto is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 54 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Sakamoto?
In Brazil, the national register counted 3,907 people named Sakamoto, about 1 in 54 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sakamoto”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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