How it is read
林はやしHayashi
Kanji spelling
林
- Rank 19 in Japan
- About 550,000 people
- 林 grove, forestOn リン · Kun はやし · 8 strokes
Rank and people come from the 2008 national surname survey by Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company. The people are an estimate from about 6.1 million policyholders, and the share is published only for the 10 most common surnames.
Kanji meanings and readings: KANJIDIC2.
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Sources and credits
- Ranking and population estimates: Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company, 全国同姓調査 (national surname survey), 24 September 2008.
- Romanization: English Wikipedia, "List of common Japanese surnames", revision 1324229757, by its contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: table reformatted and joined with EDRDG data.
- Kana readings and kanji meanings: JMnedict (version of 2026-09-29) and KANJIDIC2 (version 2026-272) from the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. The EDRDG acknowledgement is at the foot of the page.
- Audio: synthetic speech from Google Cloud Text-to-Speech. See the about page.