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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Hindi : Place name: passage of Khyer Pass, land that links Pakistan and Afghanistan

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese : habitational name from the village of Kibe in Ōmi (now Shiga prefecture), usually written with characters meaning ‘tree’ and ‘department’. A family descended from the Fujiwara directed the Buddhist temple there and took the name as their own.
  • Indian (Maharashtra, Goa); pronounced as two syllables : Hindu (Brahman) name of unknown meaning, found among Saraswat Brahmans.

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