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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese : from an ancient and common place name meaning ‘lucky (or good) river’, which was taken by several families, mostly in western Japan and the Ryūkyū Islands. One family is of the Kudō branch of the southern Fujiwara, while others descend from the Ōe family (see Oe).

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