Last name origins & meanings:
- Italian (northern): topographic name for someone who lived near
an area of cultivated land, from (terra) arata
‘cultivated (land)’, or a habitational name from a place named with
this word, as for example Arata in Piedmont.
- Japanese: rare name, meaning ‘wild rice paddy’ or ‘new rice paddy’, listed in
the Shinsen Shōjiroku. Characters for the latter meaning tend to be
pronounced Nitta or Shinden in Japan proper; the reading
Arata is from the Ryūkyū Islands. All three versions are found
in western Japan.
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