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Japanese-language surnames of Chinese origin (1 P) Pages in category "Japanese-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 2,997 total.
7. Yamamoto. This means "one who lives at the foot of the mountains." 8. Nakamura. Means "person from middle village." 9. Kobayashi. Means "small forest."
Kita is a Japanese and Polish surname. As a Japanese surname it might be written various ways in kanji (e.g. 北 meaning "north"; 木田 meaning "field of trees"; 喜多 meaning "many happinesses"). [1] As a Polish surname it is derived from the nickname "kita", which means "crest bunch sheaf; tail". Notable people with the surname include:
The top 10 surnames cover approximately 10% of the population, while the top 100 surnames cover slightly more than 33%. [ 3 ] This ranking is a result of an August 2008 study by Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company , [ 3 ] which included approximately 6,118,000 customers of Meiji Yasuda's insurance and annuities.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Japanese: Meaning: village superior: ... Murakami (村上; "village superior") is a Japanese surname, 35th by frequency in ...
Today, Nakayama is the 57th most common name in Japan as of 2008, belonging to approximately 1 out of 474 people, or 270,000 individuals. They are most prevalent in the Tokyo area. The Japanese reading of the characters in one of Chinese leader Sun Yat-sen 's familiar names, Sun Zhongshan (孫中山), is also read as "Nakayama" in Japanese.
Katsu Goto (1862–1889), Japanese merchant, interpreter, and lynching victim; Kazushige Goto, Japanese software engineer known for hand-optimized assembly routines; Keita Gotō (industrialist) (1882–1959), Japanese businessman, founder of the Tokyu Group; Kumiko Goto-Azuma, Japanese Antarctic palaeoclimatologist and glaciologist
As of 2008, it is the second most common surname in Japan, after Satō, with 1.9 million people registered. [1] It is said to have been named by the Hozumi clan (穂積氏) in the Heian period (794-1185), after suzuki, which means "the ears of rice piled up" in the dialect of southern Wakayama and Mie prefectures (also known as Kumano ). [ 2 ]