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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese (Ōmura) : ‘large village’; a place name and surname found throughout Japan and the Ryūkyū Islands. The name listed in the Shinsen shōjiroku may be taken from a district in Hizen (now Nagasaki prefecture).

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