Okamoto

Okamoto
Family name
Pronunciation	Okamoto
Meaning	hill origin (岡本)
Region of origin	Japanese

Okamoto (written: 岡本 lit. "hill origin") is the 48th most common Japanese surname.^{[1] [2]}

Etymology on kanji characters for Okamoto [岡本]

First character, 岡 -

Readings - On: (kō); Kun: (oka);

n. 1. hill; height; knoll; rising ground; ridge or crest of hill.

Second character, 本 -

Readings - On: (hon); Kun: (moto);

n. 1. book. 2. present. 3. origin. 4. true;  real; truth; reality. 5. main.

Note: This is the same character in Nihon [日本] also known as Nippon or Japan.

Notable people with the surname Okamoto

• Anri Okamoto (born 1994), fashion model and an actress in Japan
• Asami Okamoto (born 1974), female Japanese voice actress from Tokyo, Japan
• Atsushi Okamoto (born 1981), professional Nippon Professional Baseball player
• Aya Okamoto (born 1982), actress and voice actress
• Ayako Okamoto (born 1951), Japanese professional golfer
• Chizuko Okamoto (born 1951), Japanese woman who was convicted of killing her own daughter
• Fuji Okamoto (1905–1984), Japanese boxer
• Haruko Okamoto (née Ishida, born 1945), Japanese figure skater
• Hideya Okamoto (born 1987), Japanese football player
• Hitoshi Okamoto, guitarist of the Japanese pop band Garnet Crow
• Keito Okamoto (born 1993), Japanese singer and member of the J-pop group Hey! Say! JUMP
• Kihachi Okamoto (1924–2005), Japanese film director
• Kōzō Okamoto (born 1947), member of the Japanese armed militant group, Japanese Red Army (JRA)
• Kumiko Okamoto (born 1965), retired female tennis player from Japan
• Lynn Okamoto, male manga artist and a former employee of Bandai
• Mariko Okamoto (born 1951), Japanese volleyball player
• Masahiro Okamoto (born 1983), Japanese football player
• Maya Okamoto (born 1967), in Shinjuku, Tokyo, is a voice actor
• Mayo Okamoto (born 1974), Japanese singer-songwriter
• Mike Okamoto (born Detroit, United States), is an American comic book artist and commercial illustrator
• Mitsunori Okamoto (born 1971), Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan
• Mori Okamoto, actor
• Natsuki Okamoto (born 1989), Japanese fashion model and actress
• Nobuhiko Okamoto (born 1986), male Japanese voice actor from Tokyo, Japan
• Okamoto Kanoko (1889–1939), pen-name of a Japanese author, tanka poet, and Buddhism scholar
• Okamoto Kido (1872–1939), Japanese author
• Rai Okamoto (1927–1993), American architect, planner, and author
• Rei Okamoto (born 1991), Japanese model and actress
• Tarō Okamoto (1911–1996), Japanese artist noted for abstract and avant-garde paintings and sculpture
• Tetsuo Okamoto (1932–2007), Brazilian swimmer
• Tomotaka Okamoto (born 1976), Japanese sopranist
• Tomotaka Okamoto (footballer) (born 1990), Japanese football player
• Vincent Okamoto (born 1943), American Army officer
• Yasuaki Okamoto (born 1988), Japanese football player
• Yoriko Okamoto (born 1971), first Japanese athlete to become an Olympic taekwondo medalist
• Yoichi Okamoto (1915–1985), American photographer
• Yoshiki Okamoto (born 1961), video game designer credited with producing many of Capcom's popular titles
• Yoshiro Okamoto (born 1943), Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party
• Yukiko Okamoto (born 1979), Japanese actress

See also

• 6244 Okamoto, Main-belt Asteroid discovered in 1990
• Okamoto Station (Hyōgo), railway station of the Hankyu Kobe Line in Higashinada-ku, Kobe
• Okamoto–Uchiyama cryptosystem, discovered in 1998 by T. Okamoto and S. Uchiyama
• Taro Okamoto Award, award for Contemporary Art (TARO Award)

References

1. research work by Tadashige Murayama, no date when research completed.
2. article in The Japan Times dated October 11, 2009, no resource information provided.