Okinawan Submitted Surnames

This is a list of submitted surnames in which the language is Okinawan.

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Submitted names are contributed by users of this website. The accuracy of these name definitions cannot be guaranteed.

Aniko Okinawan (Japanized, Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 我如古 (see Ganeko).

Bin Okinawan (Japanized, Rare)
Japanese reading of Japanese Kanji 保栄茂 (see Boemo).

Boemo Okinawan (Rare, Archaic)
From Okinawan 保栄茂 (Boemo) meaning "Bin", a district in Tomigusuku, Okinawa, Japan.

Chinen Japanese, Okinawan
From 知 (chi) meaning "wisdom, knowledge" and 念 (nen) meaning "feeling, sense".

Fija Okinawan
Okinawan form of Higa.

Gajoko Okinawan (Japanized, Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 我如古 (see Ganeko).

Ganeko Okinawan (Japanized)
Japanese reading of Japanese Kanji 我如古 (see Ganiku).

Ganeku Okinawan (Japanized, Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 我如古 (see Ganeko).

Ganiko Okinawan (Japanized, Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 我如古 (see Ganeko).

Ganiku Okinawan
From Okinawan 我如古 (Ganiku) meaning "Ganeko", an area in Ginowan, Okinawa, Japan.

Gushiken Okinawan, Japanese
Means "strong-willed" from Japanese 具 (gu) meaning "tool, utensil, means", 志 (shi) meaning "intention, will", and 堅 (ken) meaning "hard, resolute, unyielding".

Heianza Okinawan (Japanized, Rare)
Japanese reading of Japanese Kanji 平安座 (see Henza).

Henza Okinawan (Rare)
From Okinawan 平安座 (Henza) meaning "Henza", an island in the city of Uruma in the prefecture of Okinawa in Japan.

Higa Okinawan, Japanese
Japanese borrowing of Okinawan 比嘉 (Fija), which is of uncertain meaning.

Higaon'na Okinawan
Variant of Higashion'na.

Higashion'na Okinawan
From the place name 'Higashion'na' in Okinawa, Japan.

Hika Japanese, Okinawan
From Japanese 氷 (hi) meaning "ice" and 香 (ka) meaning "fragrance".

Hoemo Okinawan (Japanized, Rare)
Variant reading of 保栄茂 (see Bin).

Iriomote Okinawan (Rare), Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 西表 (Iriomote) meaning "Iriomote", an island in Taketomi, Okinawa, Japan.

Ishanagyi Okinawan (Archaic)
From Okinawan 石垣 (Ishanagyi) meaning "Ishigaki", an area in the city of Ishigaki in the prefecture of Okinawa in Japan.

Ishigaki Japanese, Okinawan (Japanized)
From Japanese 石 (ishi) meaning "stone" and 垣 (kaki) meaning "fence".

Jachimi Okinawan (Rare, Archaic)
From Okinawan 座喜味 (Jachimi) meaning "Jachimi", a former area in the former district of Yuntanja in the former Ryūkyū kingdom of Chūzan in parts of present-day Okinawa, Japan, or it being the Okinawan form of Japanese 座喜味 (Zakimi) meaning "Zakimi", an area in the same place, in the village of Yomitan in the district of Nakagami in the prefecture of Okinawa in Japan.

Jahana Okinawan
Possibly from Japanese 謝 (ja) meaning "apologise, thanks" and 花 (hana) meaning "flower".

Jitchaku Okinawan (Japanized, Rare)
Japanese reading of Japanese Kanji 勢理客 (see Zerikyaku).

Kanagusuku Okinawan
The Okinawan language reading of its kanji, meaning "golden castle".

Kaneko Okinawan (Japanized)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 我如古 (see Ganeko).

Kina Okinawan

Kochiya Okinawan (Japanized, Rare)
Japanese reading of Japanese Kanji 古知屋 (see Kucha).

Kucha Okinawan (Rare, Archaic)
From Okinawan 古知屋 (Kucha) meaning "Kucha", a former village in the former district of Kin in the former Ryūkyū Kingdom.

Naga Japanese, Okinawan
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 奈賀 or 名嘉 (see Naka).

Naka Japanese, Okinawan
From Japanese 中 (naka) meaning "middle; center". It is a reference to an event in the Northern and Southern Courts Period, of 3 sons of Takase who became heroes for the south. The emperor of Japan awarded each of the sons a new surname; Oku for the eldest son, Naka for the middle son, and Kuchi for the youngest son.... [more]

Nayoshi Okinawan (Japanized)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 名嘉 (see Naka).

Nishiomote Japanese (Rare), Okinawan (Rare)
Variant reading of Iriomote.

Noka Okinawan (Japanized, Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 野底 (see Nosoko).

Nosoko Okinawan (Japanized, Rare)
Japanese reading of Japanese Kanji 野底 (see Nusuku).

Nozoko Okinawan (Japanized, Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 野底 (see Nosoko).

Nusuku Okinawan (Rare, Archaic)
From Okinawan 野底 (Nusuku) meaning "Nosoko", an area in the city of Ishigaki in the prefecture of Okinawa in Japan.

Shimabuku Japanese, Okinawan
Variant of Shimabukuro.

Shimabukuro Japanese, Okinawan
From Japanese 島 (shima) meaning "island" and 袋 (fukuro) meaning "bag, sack, pouch".

Shimoji Okinawan (Rare)
Comes from the island in Okinawa, Japan, called Shimoji. The combination of Kanji characters are 下 meaning "down, below", and 地 meaning "place, territory".

Shiroma Okinawan (Japanized)
Japanese form of the Okinawan surname 城間 (Gushikuma), derived from Okinawan 城 (gushiku) meaning "castle" and 間 (ma) meaning "among, between".

Tamamoto Japanese, Ryukyuan, Okinawan
From 玉 (tama) meaning "jewel, ball" and 元 (moto) meaning "origin".

Ufugusuku Okinawan
The Okinawan language reading of its kanji, meaning "big castle".

Wiibaru Okinawan
The Okinawan language reading of its kanji, 上原 meaning "upper plain" or 植原 meaning "planted plain".

Zakimi Okinawan (Japanized)
Japanese reading of Japanese Kanji 座喜味 (see Jachimi).

Zerikyaku Okinawan (Rare)
From Okinawan 勢理客 (Zerikyaku) meaning "Jitchaku", a district in Urasoe, Okinawa, Japan.

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