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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese : ‘bear valley’; also pronounced Kumatani, Kumaya, and Kumagaya, a habitational name from the town of Kumagaya, in a part of Musashi now part of Saitama prefecture. The earliest bearers were of Taira descent. Found in northeastern and western Japan.

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