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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese : ‘small ball’; habitational name of an important family from Kodama-gun, in a part of Musashi now in Saitama prefecture. Another family, of Taira descent, from Kodama-mura in Shinano (now Nagano prefecture), writes the name with a different first character.

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