I made an Anki deck of the top 1000 Japanese family names and posted on the Anki wiki.

You can download the deck here.

I got the list of names from this site about Japanese names

The deck is listed in order of popularity, so you can study the useful names first. I figure 1000 names will cover a pretty sizable percentage of the names you'll run across.

This is the first deck I've made to share, so if you get it, let me know how it works out for you ^__^

Sounds great! I tried to add some names to my deck a while a go but it didn't really work out.
I'll need to get back to it later!

Thanks for your trouble! That deck will help many people!

Thanks for that!

Nice. Will you be making one for given names as well, those are much more challenging in my experience. There is so much variation even for the "same" name that I guess you'd have to just go with the most common one(s).

alantin Wrote:Sounds great! I tried to add some names to my deck a while a go but it didn't really work out.

I think the ranking field is set to be required by default, so if you are adding new names, you might want to uncheck that if you want to leave it blank.

Great work, I see 9000 more names ranked in that website though o_0 but those aren't really necessary to know right?

This is great. Thanks for sharing your hard work!

glad people like this.

luckily is wasn't too hard....just had to copy into a spreadsheet and then import into anki. I didn't enter it all by hand ^_^

You shouldn't have said that!

Very kind, thanks!