Okamoto

Okamoto

Pronunciation	Okamoto
Origin
Word/name	Japanese
Meaning	hill origin (岡本)
Region of origin	Japanese

Okamoto (written: 岡本 lit. "hill origin") is the 48th most common Japanese surname.

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)