Matamura Surname

617,991st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 498 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Japan
Highest density in:
Japan

Matamura Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Matamura Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Japan4841:264,14110,427
Brazil101:21,407,433350,627
DR Congo11:73,879,570260,543
Tanzania11:52,941,613123,716
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048
Zimbabwe11:15,438,240133,260
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States11:50,218,684817,899

Matamura Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Matamura Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Matamura is carried by more people in Japan than any other country/territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Matamura? popularity and diffusion

Matamura is the 617,991st most commonly occurring surname on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 14,633,626 people. This surname is mostly found in Asia, where 97 percent of Matamura are found; 97 percent are found in East Asia and 97 percent are found in Nippono-Asia.

This last name is most frequently occurring in Japan, where it is held by 484 people, or 1 in 264,141. In Japan Matamura is mostly concentrated in: Hokkaido Prefecture, where 44 percent live, Kanagawa Prefecture, where 31 percent live and Aomori Prefecture, where 13 percent live. Without taking into account Japan this last name is found in 5 countries. It is also found in Brazil, where 2 percent live and The DR Congo, where 0 percent live.

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Matamura
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