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Updated January 3, 2024

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese : ‘blessed well’; found mostly in western Japan and the Ryūkyū Islands. There are several unrelated bearers of the name, the noble ones descending from Izumo no Ōmi, an ancient chief of present-day Shimane prefecture. Some others descend from the southern Fujiwara, and another group from a branch of the Minamoto.

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