Satō

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Template:Nihongo is the most common Japanese surname, representing about 1.5% of Japan's population in March 2023.<ref name="2531 AD">Template:Cite news</ref> It is often romanized as Sato, Satou or Satoh.

A 2024 study by Hiroshi Yoshida at Tohoku University estimated that if a law requiring spouses to have the same surname is not repealed and the Japanese people do not go extinct due to population decline, then every person in Japan will have the surname Satō by 2531 — legalizing separate surnames for married couples would delay this to Template:Circa.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="2531 AD"/>

Satō may refer to:

Notable peopleEdit

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Akihiro Sato (model), Brazilian model
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese professional wrestler
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese shogi player
Template:Nihongo, Japanese idol, singer, actress and voice actress
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Ayano Sato (canoeist) (born 1996), Japanese slalom canoeist
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese speed skater
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese actress and musician
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese sculptor
Template:Nihongo, Japanese screenwriter and musician
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese mathematician
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese board game designer, novelist and manga writer
Daisuke Sato (footballer) (born 1994), Filipino footballer
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese equestrian
Template:Nihongo, Japanese politician and Prime Minister of Japan
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Eric Sato (born 1966), American volleyball player
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Eunice Sato (1921–2021), American politician
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Garret T. Sato (1964–2020), American actor
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G. G. Sato (born 1978), Japanese baseball player
Gordon H. Sato (1927–2017), American cell biologist and environmentalist
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese luger
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese poet and translator
Template:Nihongo, Japanese tennis player
Template:Nihongo, Japanese basketball player and executive
Template:Nihongo, Japanese actress, singer and gravure idol
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese singer-songwriter
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese curler and curling coach
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Hisaharu Satoh, Japanese bowls player
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese film director
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese table tennis player
Template:Nihongo, Japanese cyclist
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese astronomer
Template:Nihongo, Japanese Confucianist
Template:Nihongo, Japanese professional wrestler
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese tennis player
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Josephine Sato (born 1954), Filipino politician
Template:Nihongo, Japanese anime director
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese painter
Template:Nihongo, Japanese film director
Kai Sato (born 1984), American chief operating officer
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese karateka
Template:Nihongo, Japanese cyclist
Template:Nihongo, Japanese activist, editor and critic
Template:Nihongo, Japanese biathlete
Template:Nihongo, Japanese model and television personality
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese speed skater
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese cross-country skier
Template:Nihongo, Japanese weightlifter
Template:Nihongo, Japanese shogi player
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese mecha and character designer
Template:Nihongo, Japanese curler
Template:Nihongo, Japanese baseball player
Template:Nihongo, Japanese basketball player and coach
Template:Nihongo, Japanese equestrian
Template:Nihongo, Japanese journalist
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese composer and conductor
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Kimi Sato (born 1949), Japanese composer
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese basketball coach
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese philatelist
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Kōji Satō (photographer) (1911–1955), Japanese photographer
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese general
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Template:Nihongo, Imperial Japanese Navy admiral
Template:Nihongo, Japanese figure skater and coach
Template:Nihongo, Japanese Paralympic athlete
Liane Sato (born 1964), American volleyball player
Template:Nihongo, Japanese UN Special Rapporteur and academic
Template:Nihongo, Japanese sailor
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese film director
Template:Nihongo, Japanese theatre director
Mamoru Sato (born 1937), American modernist sculptor
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese jazz pianist, composer and arranger
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese singer and former idol
Template:Nihongo, Japanese field hockey player
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese film score composer
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese actress and television personality
Template:Nihongo, Japanese high jumper
Template:Nihongo, Japanese shamisen player
Template:Nihongo, Japanese ice hockey player
Template:Nihongo, Japanese composer, singer and musician
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese middle-distance runner
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese mathematician
Template:Nihongo, Japanese archer
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Misty Sato, Professor of Education in New Zealand
Template:Nihongo, Japanese basketball player and women's basketball coach
Template:Nihongo, Japanese sprinter
Template:Nihongo, Japanese sport wrestler
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese curler
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese composer
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese diplomat and politician
Template:Nihongo, Japanese astronomer
Template:Nihongo, Japanese idol, singer and actress
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese scientist
Template:Nihongo, Japanese golfer
Template:Nihongo, Japanese basketball coach
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Nobusuke Kishi (1896–1987), born Template:Nihongo, former Prime Minister of Japan
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese marathon runner
Norie Sato (born 1949), American artist
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese fencer
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O. K. Sato (1871–1921), American vaudeville performer
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese artist, photographer and composer
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Pater Sato (1945–1994), Japanese artist
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese motorcycle racer
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Reiko Sato (1931–1981), American dancer and actress
Reinaldo Sato (born 1980), Brazilian baseball player
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Template:Nihongo, better known as Dewaminato, Japanese sumo wrestler
Template:Nihongo, Japanese bobsledder
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Risa Sato (born 1994), Filipino-Japanese volleyball player
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Ruth Sato (1904–1992), American dancer, gossip columnist, musician promoter and nightclub manager
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese football referee
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Sabrina Sato (born 1981), Brazilian model
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese surgeon
Template:Nihongo, Japanese poet
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Template:Nihongo, better known as Dick Togo, Japanese professional wrestler
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Shinobu Sato (born 1955), Japanese classical guitarist
Template:Nihongo, Japanese film director, screenwriter and video game designer
Template:Nihongo, Japanese bobsledder
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese manga artist
Template:Nihongo, Japanese model
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese politician
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Shōzō Satō (佐藤昌三; 1933–2025), Japanese playwright and theatre director
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese physician
Template:Nihongo, Japanese classical violinist and violist
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese idol, singer and actress
Template:Nihongo, Japanese Go player
Template:Nihongo, Japanese sprint canoeist
Template:Nihongo, Japanese samurai
Template:Nihongo, better known as Tadanobu Asano, Japanese actor
Template:Nihongo, Japanese film critic, theorist and historian
Template:Nihongo, Imperial Japanese Army officer and politician
Tadashi Sato (1923–2005), American artist
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese water polo player
Template:Nihongo, better known as Takakeisho, Japanese sumo wrestler
Template:Nihongo, Japanese video game character designer, writer and CGI director
Template:Nihongo, Japanese mixed martial artist
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Takeshi Sato (born 1981), Japanese professional wrestler
Template:Nihongo, Japanese graphic designer
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese engineer
Template:Nihongo, Japanese anime screenwriter and director
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese rower
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese admiral and military theorist
Thomas N. Sato, Japanese educator and biologist
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese cross-country skier
Template:Nihongo, common-law wife of the Chinese Communist scholar and poet Guo Moruo
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese long-distance runner
Template:Nihongo, Japanese gymnast
Template:Nihongo, Japanese film director and screenwriter
Template:Nihongo, Japanese lutenist and composer
Template:Nihongo, Japanese warrior
Template:Nihongo, Japanese speed skater
Template:Nihongo, Japanese light novelist
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Tsutomu Sato (ophthalmologist) (1902–1960), Japanese ophthalmologist
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Vicki Sato, American biotechnologist and academic
Template:Nihongo, Japanese actress and model
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese handball player
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese kickboxer
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese ski mountaineer
Template:Nihongo, Japanese boxer
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese film director
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese javelin thrower
Template:Nihongo, Japanese triathlete
Template:Nihongo, Japanese economist and politician
Template:Nihongo, Japanese long-distance runner
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese softball player
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese professional wrestler
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Template:Nihongo, Japanese ski jumper
Template:Nihongo, Japanese racewalker
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Yukiko Okada (1967–1986), born Template:Nihongo, Japanese idol singer

Fictional charactersEdit

Template:Nihongo, a character in the manga series High School Girls
Asami Sato, a character in the television series The Legend of Korra
Bruce Sato, from the toy franchise and cartoon M.A.S.K.
Gloria Sato, a character in the animated television series Big City Greens
Template:Nihongo, a character in the manga series Castle Town Dandelion
Hiroshi Sato, a character from The Legend of Korra
Hoshi Sato, a character in the television series Star Trek: Enterprise
Template:Nihongo, protagonist of the light novel Aura: Koga Maryuin's Last War
Inoue Sato, a character in the novel The Lost Symbol
Ishi Sato, a character from the video game Bulletstorm
Template:Nihongo, a character in the manga series Working!!
Jun Sato, a character in the television series Star Wars Rebels
Template:Nihongo, protagonist of the light novel series KonoSuba
Template:Nihongo, a character in the light novel series Shakugan no Shana
Template:Nihongo, a character in the anime series Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
Template:Nihongo, a character in the visual novel Katawa Shoujo
Template:Nihongo, a character in the manga series Given
Template:Nihongo, a character in the manga series Crayon Shin-chan
Template:Nihongo, a character in the visual novel To Heart
Template:Nihongo, a character in the manga series Doubt!!
Template:Nihongo, a character in the manga series Case Closed
Natsumi Sato, a character in the manga series Jiraishin a.k.a. Ice Blade
Template:Nihongo, a character in the manga series My Hero Academia
Template:Nihongo, a character in the light novel Aura: Koga Maryuin's Last War
Template:Nihongo, protagonist of the manga series Kyō no Go no Ni
Template:Nihongo, a character in the manga series Interviews with Monster Girls
Sebastian Sato, a character in the video game Hitman
Template:Nihongo, a character in the manga series Maria-sama ga Miteru
Template:Nihongo, a character in the manga series Whistle!
Template:Nihongo, a character in the video game series The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls
Template:Nihongo, a character in the manga series Shokugeki no Soma
Template:Nihongo, a character in the light novel series Golden Time
Template:Nihongo, a character in the manga series Welcome to the N.H.K.
Toru Sato (a.k.a. Bull), a character in the video game Need for Speed: Most Wanted
Toshiko Sato, a character in the television series Torchwood and Doctor Who
Toshiya Sato, a character in the manga series Major
Template:Nihongo, protagonist of the light novel series Ben-To
Sato, a character in the manga series Ajin: Demi-Human
Sato, a character in the film Black Rain
Satō, a character in the anime series Genji Tsūshin Agedama
Sato, a character in the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny

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