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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese : from a common place name meaning ‘rocky plain’. This is a frequent surname; one group of bearers, from Kai (now Yamanashi prefecture), is descended from the Takeda family; several others descend from other branches of the Minamoto clan. The name is pronounced Ishibaru in the Ryūkyū Islands.

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