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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese : variously written and found mostly in northeastern and west-central Japan, and on Okinawa Island. For the majority of bearers it is a habitational name from a village in Shinano (now Nagano prefecture). These bearers descend from the Minamoto clan through the Inoue family.

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