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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese : ‘above the village’; found mostly in west-central Japan and the island of Okinawa. It is also the patronymic of the Murakami Genji, a branch of the Minamoto clan descended from several sons of the Emperor Murakami (926–967).

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