Satô
surname · Latin script
Satô is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country, where it is the 21st most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Japanese 佐藤 (Satō).
- JPJapan≈1 in 235(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 47K
- BRBrazil1 in 14K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Japan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 254 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 235 (inferred from the name graph)
≈530,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sato in JP Japan, US United States, PH Philippines and 1 more.
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)- Japanese佐藤Satō(measured from records)
- Japanese佐さ(inferred from the name graph)via 佐藤
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
Borrowed from Japanese 佐藤 (Satō).
Cited for this meaning 3
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Satô 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JP Japan | #21 | ≈530,000 est. | ≈1 in 235 | — | Sato | 217 |
| BR Brazil | — | 15,639 | 1 in 14K | 16K | — | — |
| US United States | — | 7,095 | 1 in 47K | 7.1K | Sato | 254 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Sato | 40 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Sato | 56 |
| CZ Czechia | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 6 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 239 | 1 in 23K | 239 | — | 4 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 23K | listed | — | 4 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Satô mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Japanese 佐藤 (Satō). Recorded by Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Satô have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 533 thousand people named Satô in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sato.
- How common is the name Satô?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 15,639 people named Satô, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Satô compared with other names?
- In Japan, Satô is the 21st most common surname of 142,159 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Satô?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sat%C3%B4The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Satô” — the 21st most common surname in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.