Hirota

English + (surname) Etymology en ja 広田 Hirota or ja 弘田 Hirota. Proper noun s en Japanese. A people who lived on the island of Tanegashima in Japan between the third and seventh centuries. en Mindy Weisberger Long-standing mystery of modified human skulls in ancient Japan solved by new analysis w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/18/world/skull-reshaping-ancient-japan-scn/index.html 2023-08-18 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20251129044317/https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/18/world/skull-reshaping-ancient-japan-scn/index.html 29 November 2025 Statistics According to the 2010 United States Census, Hirota is the 41038th 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 Anagrams en ahiort hot air thoria Japanese Romanization ひろた