Last name origin & meaning: Japanese: from a very common place name. The meaning as now written
is ‘mountain entrance’, but originally the full meaning was ‘entrance
to the mountain forest’ (yamabayashi no iriguchi). The surname
occurs most frequently in western Japan. It is listed in the Shinsen
shōjiroku. Famous people with this last name:
Kristi Yamaguchi This name appears in the following lists:
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