Japanese Submitted Surnames

Arashi Japanese
This surname is used as 嵐 (ran, arashi) meaning "storm, tempest."... [more]

Arashi Japanese
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 荒 (see Ara).

Arashiro Japanese (Rare)
A Japanese surname. A bearer of this surname is Yukiya Arashiro (Born 1984-) He is a Japanese cyclist.

Arata Japanese
From Japanese 荒 (ara) meaning "rough, sparse, wild" or 新 (ara) meaning "new, natural" and 田 (ta) meaning "field".

Arata Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 畭 (see Hari).

Aratai Japanese
"Wild well".

Aratake Japanese

Aratani Japanese
From Japanese 荒 (ara) meaning "rough, wild" and 谷 (tani) meaning "valley".

Araya Japanese
From Japanese 荒 (ara) meaning "rough, wild" and 谷 (ya) meaning "valley".

Are Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 荒 (see Ara).

Arehira Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 荒平 (see Arahira).

Arichi Japanese
Ari means "have, possess, exist" and chi means "ground, soil".

Ariga Japanese
From Japanese 有 (ari) meaning "have, possess" and 賀 (ka) meaning "congratulation".

Arihara Japanese

Arikiyo Japanese
Ari means "exist, have, possess" and kiyo means "pure, clean".

Arimori Japanese
Ari means "exist" and mori means "forest".... [more]

Arimura Japanese
Ari means "exist" and mura means "village, hamlet".

Arino Japanese
Ari means "exist" and no means "plain, field, wilderness".

Arioka Japanese
From Japanese 有 (ari) meaning "have, possess" and 岡 (oka) meaning "ridge, hill".

Arisaka Japanese
Ari means "have, possess, exist" and saka means "hill, slope".

Arisawa Japanese
From Japanese 有 (ari) meaning "have, possess" and 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh".

Arise Japanese
Ari means "exist, have, possess" and se means "ripple".

Arisu Japanese

Arisugawa Japanese
Notable bearers are members of the Arisugawa clan, such as Princess Arisugawa no Miya Oriko and her father Prince Arisugawa no Miya Orihito.

Arisukawa Japanese

Arita Japanese
From Japanese 有 (ari) meaning "have, possess" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Aritomi Japanese
Ari means "have, possess, exist" and tomi means "abundance, wealth".

Ariyama Japanese
Ari means "exist, have, possess" and yama means "mountain".

Ariyoshi Japanese
From Japanese 有 (ari) meaning "have, possess" and 吉 (yoshi) meaning "lucky, good".

Ariza Japanese
From 有 (ari) meaning "exist, possess, maintain, furthermore" and 座 (za) meaning "seat, sitting, platform, rank, constellation, counting words, guild, name, institution".

Arizawa Japanese
Variant of Arisawa.

Aru Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 畔蒜 (see Abiru).

Asa Japanese
Variously written, sometimes with characters used phonetically. It can mean ‘morning’, but the most likely meaning is ‘hemp’, making it a topographic or occupational name. Both forms are found mostly in Amami, one of the Ryūkyū Islands.

Asaarashi Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 朝 (asa) meaning "morning" and 嵐 (arashi) meaning "storm; tempest".

Asabara Japanese
Variant of Asahara.

Asabu Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 麻布 (see Azabu 1 or Azabu 2).

Asabushi Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 朝武士 (see Asamushi).

Asada Japanese
From Japanese 浅 (asa) meaning "shallow" or 麻 (asa) meaning "hemp, flax" and 田 (ta) meaning "field".

Asagami Japanese
Variant of Asakami.

Asahara Japanese
From Japanese 朝 (asa) meaning "morning", 浅 (asai) meaning "shallow", or 麻 (asa) meaning "hemp" combined with 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".

Asahina Japanese
From Japanese 朝 (asa) meaning "morning", 比 (hi) meaning "comparison, match, equal" or 日 (hi) meaning "sun, day", and 奈 (na), a phonetic character.

Asai Japanese
Japanese surname meaning "shallow well".

Asai Japanese
From Japanese 浅 (asa) meaning "shallow" and 井 (i) meaning "well, mine shaft, pit".

Asaidori Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 浅井取 (asaidori), assigned letters to Iwami dialect アサイドリ (asaidori) meaning "elaeagnus".

Asaka Japanese
From the Japanese 淺 or 浅 (asa) "superficial" and 香 (ka) "odour," "smell,"　加 (ka) "increase," "step-up" or 賀 (ka) "congratulation."

Asakawa Japanese
From Japanese 浅 (asa) meaning "shallow" and 川 or 河 (kawa) meaning "river".

Asaki Japanese
From Japanese 杏 (anzu, a) meaning "apricot" or 亜 (a) meaning "second, Asia" combined with 咲 (saki) meaning "blossom".

Asakura Japanese
From Japanese 朝 (asa) meaning "morning", 浅 (asa) meaning "shallow", or 麻 (asa) meaning "hemp" and 倉 (kura) meaning "warehouse, storehouse".

Asama Japanese

Asamen Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 浅面 (Asamen), a clipping of 浅面門 (Asamemmon) meaning "Asamen Gate", a name of a group of several households in the Kadowari System that took place in the Edo Period in the former Japanese province of Satsuma in parts of present-day Kagoshima, Japan.

Asamizu Japanese
made with kanji 朝(asa) meaning "morning" or 浅(asa) meaning "shallow" with 水(mizu) neaning "water".

Asamura Japanese
From Japanese 浅 (asa) meaning "shallow" and 村 (mura) meaning "town, village".

Asamushi Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 浅虫 (Asamushi) meaning "Asamushi", an area in the city of Aomori in the prefecture of Aomori in Japan.... [more]

Asao Japanese
Asa can mean "morning", "shallow" or "hemp" and o means "tail".

Asaoka Japanese

Asaoka Japanese
From Japanese 浅 (asa) meaning "shallow" and 岡 (oka) meaning "hill, ridge".

Asaomo Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 浅面 or 淺面 (see Asamen).

Asari Japanese
From Japanese 浅 (asa) meaning "shallow" and 利 (ri) meaning "benefit, advantage".

Asata Japanese

Asato Japanese (Rare)
There are several readings for the name but 2 are Asa:"Morning",and To:"Door,Asa:"Safe" and To:"Village". There are multiple places in the Ryukyu's (where the name originates and mostly stays) that have that name;that could've been the influence... [more]

Asawara Japanese
Variant of Asahara.

Asazu Japanese

Ashida Japanese
Combination of the kanji 芦 (ashi, "reed") and 田 (ta, "field").

Ashido Japanese
From Japanese 芦 (ashi) meaning "reed" and 戸 (do) meaning "door"

Ashihara Japanese

Ashikaga Japanese
Ashikaga is a surname that originated with samurai families. Kaga means "Flower Bud,Reed" and Ashi means "Place",but it is most commonly, ( if not always ) written with characters meaning ,"foot" and "advantage".

Ashina Japanese

Ashita Japanese
Variant of Ashida.

Ashitanihara Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 芦谷原 (Ashitanihara), a variant reading of 芦谷原 (Ashitaniharu) meaning "Ashitaniharu", a division in the division of Shukukubota in the area of Makizono in the city of Kirishima in the prefecture of Kagoshima in Japan or it being a name of a group of several households in the same location, for the Kadowari System that took place in the Edo Period in the former Japanese province of Satsuma in parts of present-day Kagoshima, Japan.

Ashitomi Japanese

Ashiya Japanese

Ashiyahara Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 芦谷原 (see Ashitanihara).

Aso Japanese
From Japanese 阿蘇 (Aso) meaning "Aso", a former district in the former Japanese province of Higo in parts of present-day Kumamoto, Japan.... [more]

Asō Japanese
Combination of the kanji 麻 (asa, "hemp plant") and 生 (fu, "place where vegetation grows"), thus "place where hemp plants grow". A famous bearer of this surname is Japanese Prime Minister Tarō Asō (麻生 太郎; b. 1940).

Asō Japanese
Variant reading of Aso.

Asobe Japanese

Asoi Japanese

Asui Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 蛙 (a) meaning "frog" and 吹 (sui) meaning "puff"

Asukai Japanese

Atachi Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 接待 (see Settai).

Atake Japanese
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 阿武 (see Anno 2).

Atake Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 阿竹 (Atake) meaning "Atake", a division in the area of Tajiri in the city of Ise in the prefecture of Mie in Japan.

Atari Japanese
中 (Atari) means "middle". ... [more]

Atari Japanese
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 中 (see Naka).

Ataru Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 中 (see Naka).

Atsuda Japanese
From Japanese 渥 (atsu) meaning "moist" combined with 田 (da) meaning "paddy, field".

Atsugi Japanese (Rare)
Atsugi (厚木) means "thick tree", notable bearer of this surname is Nanami Atsugi (厚木 那奈美), a Japanese Voice actress. It is also a city name in Kanagawa perfecture.

Atsuki Japanese

Atsumi Japanese

Atsuta Japanese

Awa Japanese
From Japanese 阿波 (Awa) meaning "Awa", a former Japanese province in present-day Tokushima, Japan.

Awa Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 阿波 (Awa), a clipping of 上阿波 (Kamiawa) or 下阿波 (Shimoawa), both areas in the city of Iga in the prefecture of Mie in Japan.

Awada Japanese

Awagai Japanese
Variant of Awatani.

Awagaya Japanese
Variant of Awatani.

Awai Japanese
Awa means "millet" and i means "well, mineshaft, pit".

Awamura Japanese
Awa means "millet" and mura means "hamlet, village".

Awano Japanese
Awa means "millet" and no means "field, wilderness, plain".

Awanoue Japanese

Awaoka Japanese
Awa means "millet" and oka means "mound, hill".

Awara Japanese
A variant of Ahara.

Awatani Japanese
Awa means "millet" and tani means "valley".

Awaya Japanese
From Japanese 粟 (Awa) meaning "Mllet" and 谷 (Tani) meaning "valley".

Awayama Japanese
Away means "millet" and yama means "mountain".

Ayanami Japanese
Aya (綾) means "twill", nami (波) means "wave"

Ayano Japanese
綾 (Aya) means "design" and 野 (no) means "field".... [more]

Ayanokoji Japanese
A variant transcription of Ayanokouji meaning "design small road".

Ayanokouji Japanese
綾 (Aya) means "design", no is a possessive particle, 小 (kou) means "small, little", and 路 (ji) means "road."

Ayugawa Japanese
Variant of Ayukawa.

Ayukawa Japanese
From 鮎 (ayu) meaning "trout" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river."

Azabu Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 麻布 (Azabu), a clipping of 元麻布 (Motoazabu) meaning "Motoazabu", an area in the ward of Minato in the city of Tokyo in Japan.

Azabu Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 麻布 (Azabu) meaning "Azabu", a division in the area of Nakauri in the city of Shinshiro in the prefecture of Aichi in Japan.

Azahara Japanese
From Japanese 字 (aza) meaning "a section of a village" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".

Azakami Japanese

Azami Japanese

Azebiru Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 畔蒜 (see Abiru).

Azenira Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 畔蒜 (see Abiru).

Azeri Japanese (Rare)
Means "acharya" in Japanese.

Azuchi Japanese
Variant reading of Amuro.

Azukigawa Japanese
Variant of Azukikawa.

Azukikawa Japanese

Azuma Japanese
Means 'East' in Japanese

Azuma Japanese
From Japanese 東 (azuma) meaning "east".

Azuma Japanese

Azuma Japanese
Variant reading of Amuro.

Azuma Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 阿萬 (see Ama).

Azumagaito Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 東垣外 (see Higashigaito).

Azumagakito Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 東垣外 (see Higashigaito).

Azumayashiki Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 東屋敷 (see Higashiyashiki).

Azusagawa Japanese (Rare)
Azusa (梓) means "catalpa", gawa/kawa (川) means "river", kawa changes to gawa due to rendaku. Sakuta Azusagawa (梓川 咲太) and his sister Kaede (梓川 花楓) from Seishun Buta Yarou wa Bunny Girl Senpai are notable fictional characters who bear this surname.

Azusakawa Japanese

Azusawa Japanese
Surname of Kohane Azusawa from project sekai

Baba Japanese
From Japanese 馬場 (baba) meaning "riding ground".

Babaoka Japanese
Baba means "riding ground" and oka means "hill".

Babazoe Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 馬場添 (Babazoe) meaning "Babazoe", a name of a group of several households for the Kadowari System that took place in the Edo Period in the former Japanese province of Satsuma in parts of present-day Kagoshima, Japan.

Babe Japanese
Variant reading of Umabe.

Badan Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 馬之段 (see Umanodan).

Baishō Japanese
Bai (倍) means "double", while shō (賞) means "Prize" or "Award". When you combine the two, it would likely mean "Double the Award".

Bakugo Japanese, Popular Culture
From Japanese 爆 (baku) meaning "bomb" and 豪 (go, gō, gou) meaning "powerful"... [more]

Ban Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 播 (see Hari).

Bando Japanese
It means "east of the slope", referring to eastern provinces of Osaka. The surname originates from there, and that is where it is most common.

Bandoh Japanese
Variant of Bando.

Bandou Japanese
Variant of Bando.

Bankoku Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 万国 meaning "all nations; the whole world; universal". The fact that it is homophonous as Japanese バンコク (Bankoku) meaning "Bangkok", the city in Thailand, is coincidental.

Bannai Japanese
From Japanese 坂 (ban) meaning "slope" and 内 (nai) meaning "inside".

Banno Japanese

Beffu Japanese
Variant reading of Japanese Beppu.

Befu Japanese
Variant reading of Beppu.

Benihana Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 紅粉 (see Kōka).

Beppu Japanese
From Japanese 別府 (Beppu), the name of several Japanese towns and divisions. In some cases these places names are normally read Byū or Befu. In other cases Beppu is a clipping of longer names such as 別府門 (Beppumon), 西別府 (Nishibeppu) or 上別府 (Kamibeppu).

Bessho Japanese
From 別 (be, betsu) meaning "separate, another different" and 所 (sho) meaning "place, plant, institute, station".

Betsubu Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Beppu.

Betsufu Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Beppu.

Binsaki Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 鬢 (bin) meaning a type of hairstyle and 崎 (saki) meaning "small peninsula; cape".

Binzaki Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 鬢崎 (see Binsaki).

Bito Japanese

Budo Japanese

Budoh Japanese
Variant transcription of Budou.

Budou Japanese
From Japanese 武 (bu) meaning "military, martial" combined with 堂 (dou) meaning "temple, shrine" or from 武道 (budou) meaning "Japanese martial arts".

Bushi Japanese
Bushi means "warrior, smaurai".

Bushida Japanese
Bushi means "warrior, samurai" and da is a form of ta meaning "rice paddy, wilderness, field".

Busujima Japanese
Sacrifice, Innovative, Powerful

Butsuen Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 仏 (butsu) meaning "Buddha, Buddhism" and 園 (en) meaning "garden; park", referring to a Buddhist-style garden.

Butsupu Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Beppu.

Byu Japanese
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 別府 (see Byū).

Byū Japanese
Variant reading of Beppu.

Byuh Japanese
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 別府 (see Byū).

Byuu Japanese
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 別府 (see Byū).

Chabana Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 茶 (cha) meaning "tea" and 花 (bana), the joining form of 花 (hana) meaning "flower".

Chabashira Japanese (Rare)
茶 (Cha) literally means "green tea" and bashira comes from 柱 (hashira) meaning "pillar".... [more]

Chabata Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 茶 (cha) meaning "tea" and 幡 (bata), the joining form of 幡 (hata), a clipping of 八幡 (Yahata), the name of a Shintō shrine in possibly Hiroshima, Japan.

Chabata Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 茶 (cha) meaning "tea" and 畑

Chabatake Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 茶畑 (see Chabata 2) and can also be written 茶畠.

Chachin Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 茶 (cha) meaning "tea" and 珍 (chin) meaning "rare; strange".... [more]

Chage Japanese
From Japanese 茶下 (chage) meaning "giver of tea". A notable bearer is Japanese musician Shūji Shibata (1958-), whose stage name is Chage.

Chahata Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 茶幡 (see Chabata 1).

Chahata Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 茶畑 (see Chabata 2).

Chashin Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 茶 (cha) meaning "tea" and 新 (shin) meaning "new".

Chataba Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 茶立場 (see Chatateba).

Chatateba Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 茶立場 (Chatateba) meaning "Chatateba", a division in the area of Tōkaichi in the city of Hachinohe in the prefecture of Aomori in Japan.

Chaya Japanese

Chiaki Japanese (Rare)
Depending on the kanji used can mean different things. Chi means "thousand" or "wisdom" and aki means "bright", "autumn", "sparkle", "crystal ball" or "shining". This is the last name of Naomi Chiaki, a Japanese singer... [more]

Chibana Japanese
千 (Chi) means "one thousand" and 花 (bana) is a variation of hana, meaning "blossom, flower".... [more]

Chibara Japanese
Variant of Chihara.

Chigusa Japanese
This surname is used as 千種, 千草 or 千艸 with 千 (sen, chi) meaning "thousand", 種 (shu, -gusa, tane) meaning "class, kind, seed, species, variety", 草 (sou, kusa, kusa-, -gusa) meaning "draft, grass, herbs, pasture, weeds, write" and 艸 (sou, kusa) meaning "grass, plants."... [more]

Chihara Japanese
From Japanese 茅 (chi) meaning "thatch" or 千 (chi) meaning "thousand" combined with 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain". A notable bearer of this surname is Minori Chihara (茅原 実里), a Japanese voice-actress who is best known for voicing Yuki Nagato from the Haruhi Suzumiya series and Aya Natsume from Tenjō Tenge.

Chiina Japanese

Chijimatsu Japanese

Chikafuji Japanese
Chika means "near" and fuji means "wisteria".

Chikahisa Japanese
Chika means "near" and hisa means "long time, long time ago, longevity".

Chikamatsu Japanese
From 近 (chika) meaning "close, near" and 松 (matsu) meaning "pine, fir tree".

Chikano Japanese
Chika means "near" and no means "field, rice paddy".

Chikuchishin Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 築地新 (see Tsukijishin).

Chimoto Japanese
Chi can mean "thousand" or "ground, soil" and moto means "source, origin, root".

Chinen Japanese

Chinji Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 鎮寺 (Chinji), from 鎮寺門 (Chinjimon), a name of a group of several households in the Kadowari System that took place in the Edo Period in the former Japanese province of Satsuma in parts of present-day Kagoshima, Japan, as well as surrounding areas.

Chino Japanese (Rare)
Written with characters Chi ("Micanthus Reed") and No ("Feild").

Chino Japanese
From Japanese 千 (chi) meaning "thousand" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".

Chisaka Japanese
Chi means "thousand" and saka means "slope, hill".

Chisaki Japanese
Chi can mean "thousand" or "pond", and saki means "cape, promontory, peninsula".

Chishiya Japanese
From Japanese 千 (chi) meaning "thousand", 地 (chi) meaning "earth, land", 智 (chi) meaning "wisdom, intellect" 散 (chi) meaning "scatter", 梓 (shi) meaning "Japanese cherry birch", 塩 (shio) meaning "salt", 沙 (shi) meaning "sand", 司 (shi) meaning "to take charge of; to control; to manage", 史 (shi) meaning "history", 四 (shi) meaning "four", 士 (shi) meaning "samurai, warrior", 子 (shi) meaning "child", 市 (shi) meaning "market", 志 (shi) meaning "purpose, will, determination, aspiration, ambition", 氏 (shi) meaning "a family; a clan", 糸 (shi) meaning "thread", 紙 (shi) meaning "paper", 紫 (shi) meaning "purple; violet", 至 (shi) meaning "to reach; to arrive", 詩 (shi) meaning "poetry, poem", 資 (shi) meaning "money; fund; wealth; capital", 汐 (shi) meaning "evening tide; night tides; ebb", 心 (shi) meaning "heart, mind, soul" or 清 (shi) meaning "clear; limpid", and 也 (ya) meaning "also" or 哉 (ya), an exclamation... [more]

Chisuga Japanese
Chi means "thousand" and suga means "sedge".

Chiura Japanese (Rare)
This surname is used as 千浦, 地浦 or 知浦 with 千 (sen, chi) meaning "thousand," 地 (ji, chi) meaning "earth, ground", 知 (chi, shi.raseru, shi.ru) meaning "know, wisdom" and 浦 (ho, ura) meaning "bay, beach, creek, gulf, inlet, seacoast."... [more]

Chiwara Japanese
Variant of Chihara.

Chiya Japanese (Rare)
Means "bloody arrow; arrow of blood" in Japanese.

Chiyoda Japanese

Chiyonofuji Japanese
It means "One thousand years of wisteria."

Chiyota Japanese

Chizaka Japanese
Variant of Chisaka.

Chizaki Japanese
Variant of Chisaki.

Chono Japanese
Cho can mean "butterfly" and no means "field, wilderness, plain".

Chosokabe Japanese
Variant transcription of Chousokabe.

Chousokabe Japanese
From Japanese 長 (chou) meaning "chief, head, leader", 宗 (so) meaning "religion", 我 (ka) meaning "ego" and 部 (be) meaning "section".

Chu Japanese
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 中 or 仲 (see Chū).

Chū Japanese
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 中 or 仲 (see Naka).

Chubachi Japanese

Chujo Japanese

Chūtō Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Nukutō.

Chuto Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Chūtō.

Chuu Japanese
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 中 or 仲 (see Chū).

Daigo Japanese

Daikokuya Japanese (Rare)
Possibly from Japanese prefix 大 (dai) meaning "large" and 黒 (koku) meaning "black" and suffix 屋 (ya) meaning "shop".

Daima Japanese, Hindi

Daiman Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 大 (dai) meaning "big; large" and 万 (man) meaning "10,000, various".

Daimon Japanese
From Japanese 大 (dai) meaning "big, great" and 門 (mon) meaning "gate, door".

Daizai Japanese

Dakurige Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 駄栗毛 (Dakurige) meaning "Dakurige", a division in the area of Sawane in the city of Sado in the prefecture of Niigata in Japan.

Date Japanese
From Japanese 伊 (da) meaning "this" and 達 (te) meaning "achieve, arrive at, intelligent".

Dazai Japanese
太宰 is translated as (plump; thick; big around | superintend; manager; rule) it could be roughly translated as meaning "a plump superintend"... [more]

Deguchi Japanese
From Japanese 出 (de) meaning "exit" and 口 (kuchi) meaning "mouth, entrance".

Dejima Japanese
Variant of Deshima.

Dejima Japanese
Means "sticking out island" in Japanese.

Demachi Japanese
De means ground, soil, dirt, earth" and machi means "town".

Demegawa Japanese
From Japanese 出 (de) "out", 目 (me) "eye" and 川 (kawa) "river".

Demizu Japanese

Demura Japanese
The Japanese surname "Demura" (出村) consists of two kanji characters: "出" meaning "to go out" or "to leave" and "村" meaning "village" or "town." So, "Demura" could be interpreted as "from the village" or "originating from the village." However, as with many Japanese surnames, there may be variations in meaning and interpretation depending on the family's history and region.

Deshima Japanese
Variant reading of Dejima.

Dewa Japanese

Doan Japanese

Dobashi Japanese

Dobashi Japanese
From Japanese 土 (do) meaning "earth, soil" and 橋 (hashi) meaning "bridge".

Dodo Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 闐闐 (see Dondo).

Dohi Japanese

Dohune Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 堂畝 (see Dōune).

Dohyu Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 堂湯 (see Dōyu).

Doi Japanese
Do ("Earth") + I ("Habitation") or ("Well, Mineshaft") in a different region. "Earth Well" is used mainly in the west and in Shikoku, the "Earth Habitation" kanji is used in eastern Japan. This name isn't rare and considered out of the ordinary, but it's uncommon to the ears.

Doi Japanese
From Japanese 土 (do) meaning "earth, soil" and 居 (i) meaning "being, sitting".

Doi Japanese
From Japanese 土 (do) meaning "earth, soil" and 井 (i) meaning "well, mine shaft, pit".

Doi Japanese
From Japanese 土 (do) meaning "earth, soil" and 肥 (i) meaning "manure, fertilizer".

Doiya Japanese

Dōjima Japanese
From Japanese 堂 (dou) meaning "temple, shrine" and 島 (shima) meaning "island".

Doki Japanese

Domoto Japanese

Dondo Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 闐々 (dondo), from ドンド (dondo), an onomatopoeic word for sounds of thuds and bangs, referring to a water gate; to a person working at one.... [more]

Dondon Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 闐々 (see Dondo).

Dotani Japanese (Rare)
戸 (Do) means "door" or 藤 (do) means "wisteria". 谷 (Tani) means "valley".

Douchi Japanese
Possibly from 戸 (do) meaning "door" and 内 (uchi) meaning "inside".

Dōune Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 堂 (dō) meaning "temple, shrine, hall" and 畝 (une) meaning "raised ridge of earth in a field; furrow", referring to possibly a place with a hall and a field.

Doune Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 堂畝 (see Dōune).

Douune Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 堂畝 (see Dōune).

Douyu Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 堂湯 (see Dōyu).

Dōyu Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 堂 (dō) meaning "temple, shrine, hall" and 湯 (yu) meaning "hot water, bath; hot spring".

Doyu Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 堂湯 (see Dōyu).

Ebato Japanese

Ebibara Japanese
Variant of Ebihara.

Ebihara Japanese

Ebina Japanese

Ebina Japanese
From Japanese 蝦 (ebi) meaning "shrimp, prawn" and 名 (na) meaning "name, reputation".

Ebino Japanese

Ebisawa Japanese

Ebisu Japanese

Ebisui Japanese

Ebitsubo Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 海老坪 (Ebitsubo) meaning "Ebitsubo", a division in the area of Mimura in the city of Ishioka in the prefecture of Ibaraki in Japan.

Ebiwara Japanese
Variant of Ebihara.

Ebizawa Japanese
Variant of Ebisawa.

Eda Japanese
From Japanese 江 (e) meaning "bay, inlet" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Edahiro Japanese

Edamura Japanese
The kanji 枝 (Eda) means "Branch", while 村 (Mura) means "Town, Village". Combine the two and the surname means "Branching Town/Village".

Edo Japanese
E means "river, inlet" and to means "wisteria".

Edoh Japanese
Variant of Edo.

Edou Japanese
Variant of Edo.

Egami Japanese
Variant of Ekami.

Egashira Japanese
From Japanese 江 (e) meaning "bay, inlet" and 頭 (kashira) meaning "head".

Eguchi Japanese
From Japanese 江 (e) meaning "inlet, bay" and 口 (kuchi) meaning "mouth, entrance".

Eigen Japanese

Eizuru Japanese
From 栄 (ei) meaning "prosper, flourish, glory, splendid, brilliance" and 鶴 (tsuru) meaning "crane (bird), white color, long life".

Ejiri Japanese
江 (E) means "inlet, river" and 尻 (jiri) means "behind, rear".

Ejiri Japanese
From Japanese 江 (e) meaning "bay, inlet" and 尻 (shiri) meaning "behind, end, rear".

Ema Japanese

Emi Japanese
Means bay. In other characters, Emi is also a feminine given name.

Emori Japanese
From Japanese 江 (e) meaning "bay, inlet" and 守 (mori) meaning "watchman, keeper, caretaker".

Emori Japanese
From Japanese 江 (e) meaning "bay, inlet" and 森 (mori) meaning "forest".

Emoto Japanese
E means "river, inlet" and moto means "origin".

Enatsu Japanese
江 (E) means "river, inlet" and 夏 (natsu) means "summer".... [more]

Endo Japanese
Alternate transcription of Endō.

Endō Japanese
From Japanese 遠 (en) meaning "distant, far" and 藤 (dō) meaning "wisteria".

Endoh Japanese
Variant of Endo.

Endou Japanese
Variant of Edo.

Ennishi Japanese
En means "garden" and nishi means "west".

Enno Japanese
En means "garden" and no means "wilderness, plain, field."