First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
Japanese: variously written, usually with characters meaning ‘red tree’. It may derive from Akagiyama (‘Mount Red Castle’), a famous peak in east-central Japan, but the surname is more common in western Japan.