I've seen a lot of 'Top 100 Japanese surnames' sorts of lists, but obviously
some names are much more popular in some regions than others. Is there a
resource (preferably in Japanese!) that would take this into account?
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Is there a list of popular surnames organised by region/prefecture?
A telephone directory of that region will give a good approximation.
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* [都道{とどう}府県{ふけん}別{べつ}名字{みょうじ}ランキング](http://home.r01.itscom.net/morioka/myoji/best20.html) \- a top 20 surname list of each prefecture published by Hiroshi Morioka, a Japanese surname researcher

  * [同姓{どうせい}同名{どうめい}辞典{じてん}](http://www.douseidoumei.net/) \- huge rankings of Japanese names generated from telephone directories
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