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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese : ‘high rice paddy’; also pronounced Takada. The most ancient family to bear the name originated in the Kyōto region and is listed in the Shinsen shōjiroku. Other families have taken the name from various places so named.

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