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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese : ‘plum rice paddy’; taken as a surname by the Shida branch of the Minamoto family from a village in Musashi (now Tōkyō and Saitama prefectures). Other bearers descend from Fujiwara no Hidesato (10th century).

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