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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese : written with characters meaning ‘former’ or ‘ancestor’ and ‘root’. This name is found mostly in eastern Japan and in the Ryūkyū Islands. One family were samurai of Suō province (now part of Yamaguchi prefecture).
  • Variant of English Son or Jewish Sohn or Sonne.

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