Hirota

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 広田 (Hirota) or 弘田 (Hirota).

Proper noun

Hirota (plural Hirotas)

1. A surname from Japanese.
2. A people who lived on the island of Tanegashima in Japan between the third and seventh centuries.
   • 2023 August 18, Mindy Weisberger, “Long-standing mystery of modified human skulls in ancient Japan solved by new analysis”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The study team determined that Hirota people practiced cranial deformation “regardless of social rank or sex,” said coauthors Dr. Noriko Seguchi, an associate professor with the Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies at Kyushu University in Japan, and James Frances Loftus III, a postdoctoral research fellow at the university.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Hirota is the 41038^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 531 individuals. Hirota is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (70.06%) and Mixed Race (14.31%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Hirota”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 182.

Anagrams

• hot air, thoria

Japanese

Romanization

Hirota

1. Rōmaji transcription of ひろた