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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese : topographic and habitational name meaning ‘mountain hill’; it is found chiefly in western Japan. Bearers from a district in Yamato (now Nara prefecture) are of Minamoto origin, while those from Ōmi (now Shiga prefecture) descend from the Ban family.

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