Celebrity Baby Names: Kristi Yamaguchi

First name origin: English

First name meaning: Of Christ; variation of Christine

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Last name origin: Japanese

Last name meaning: from a very common place name. The meaning as now written is ‘mountain entrance’, but originally the full meaning was ‘entrance to the mountain forest’ (yamabayashi no iriguchi). The surname occurs most frequently in western Japan. It is listed in the Shinsen shōjiroku.

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