Watashi Surname

74,335th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 6,612 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Japan
Highest density in:
Japan

Watashi Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Watashi Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Japan6,5651:19,4742,208
Brazil341:6,296,304151,940
Netherlands21:8,443,588136,641
Russia21:72,061,528727,117
China11:1,367,321,56651,149
France11:66,422,722504,397
Hong Kong11:7,335,48316,643
Indonesia11:132,249,194811,426
Malaysia11:29,494,225409,885
Mexico11:124,126,205103,776
Philippines11:101,238,223404,861
Switzerland11:8,212,915156,297
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Watashi (12,851) may also be a first name.

Watashi Last Name Facts

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

The last name Watashi is more commonly found in Japan than any other country or territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Watashi? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 74,335th most frequent last name world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 1,102,170 people. This last name is primarily found in Asia, where 99 percent of Watashi reside; 99 percent reside in East Asia and 99 percent reside in Nippono-Asia. Watashi is also the 51,691st most widely held first name globally, borne by 12,851 people.

The last name Watashi is most commonly used in Japan, where it is borne by 6,565 people, or 1 in 19,474. In Japan it is most common in: Fukuoka Prefecture, where 12 percent are found, Osaka Prefecture, where 9 percent are found and Kagoshima Prefecture, where 9 percent are found. Not including Japan Watashi exists in 12 countries. It is also found in Brazil, where 1 percent are found and The Netherlands, where 0 percent are found.

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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 Watashi
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