How it is read
斉藤 斎藤さいとうSaitō
Kanji spellings
2 spellings share this reading.
斉藤
- Rank 20 in Japan
- About 530,000 people
- 斉 adjusted, alike, equal
- 藤 wisteriaOn トウ ドウ · Kun ふじ · 18 strokes
斎藤
- Rank 21 in Japan
- About 520,000 people
- 斎 purification, Buddhist food, room
- 藤 wisteriaOn トウ ドウ · Kun ふじ · 18 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.