Given name & surname

Sakata

Sakata is a surname from Japanese.

Original Japanese阪田

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Sakata comes from Japanese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Japanese 坂田 (Sakata).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Sakata’s family of names

In English usage, Sakata as a surname was borrowed from the Japanese form 坂田. In Japanese usage, Sakata as a surname is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 阪田.

Walk Sakata’s family in the name graph

Sakata阪田さかた坂田

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Spellings & scripts 2

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Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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