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Onishi

Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

Japanese (Ōnishi) : ‘great west’; a habitational name taken from a village in Awa (now Tokushima prefecture) by members of the Ogasawara family, who were of Minamoto descent. The name is also found on Okinawa Island.