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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese : from a very old and common place name in Japan and the Ryūkyū Islands meaning ‘lucky (or good) plain’, which has been taken as a surname by several unrelated families. One family descends from court nobles who took the name in ancient times. It is also pronounced Yoshiwara; and in the Ryūkyū Islands as Yoshibaru.

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