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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese (found mostly in eastern Japan and the Ryūkyū Islands) : habitational name from a village so called (‘(one who lives) beneath the cedars’) near Kamakura. Many bearers are of Miura or Ishii family descent.

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