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: ‘mountain river’, listed in the Shinsen shōjiroku and found mostly in western Japan, though the entire country is filled with mountains and rivers. An alternative pronunciation is Yamagawa.