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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese (Saitō) : variously written, this is one of the ten most common surnames, especially in northeastern Japan. The Saito descend from Fujiwara no Nobumochi, a 10th-century head of the Saigū Shrine; thus, Saigū no Fujiwara or Saitō.

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