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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese : meaning ‘mountain root’; many bearers are descended from a family which took its name from a location so named in present–day Saitama prefecture. The name is found mainly in the Tōkyō-Saitama prefectures and west-central Japan, as well as in the island of Okinawa.

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