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 ‘upper field’; it is variously written, and also read Kamino, Agano and Kōzuke. Several families, some descended from various great clans, have adopted the name.