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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese : ‘small island’; mostly found along the coast between Tōkyō and Kyōto and in the Ryūkyū Islands; an alternate reading found farther east is Ojima. Another Kojima with a different first character but similar meaning is found in western Japan.

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