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: from a common place name meaning ‘(one who lives) beneath the hackberry tree’. It is found as a surname in the Kyōto–Ōsaka area and the Ryūkyū Islands, and is listed in the Shinsen shōjiroku.