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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese : ‘small pine tree’; found mostly in west-central Japan, the island of Shikoku, and the Ryūkyū Islands; an alternate reading found farther east is Omatsu. Several samurai families of various lineages took this surname from any of the various villages of this name.

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