Frequency: (117)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Japanese: see Uemura. The -ye in this spelling represents a sound no longer in modern Japanese, which is now pronounced and spelled -e.
GIVEN NAMES: Japanese 34%. Shizuko (2), Chikashi, Hisako, Ichiro, Katsumi, Kazuo, Kikuyo, Manabu, Masayuki, Minoru, Shig, Susumu.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
