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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese (Ōmori) : ‘large grove’; variously written. It is found mostly in eastern Japan and the island of Okinawa. Some bearers, of Fujiwara origin, took the name from a district in Suruga (now part of Shizuoka prefecture).

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