Frequency: (181)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Japanese: written with characters meaning ‘know feelings’, but the meaning could be ‘one thousand years’; from the Ryūkyū Islands.
GIVEN NAMES: Japanese 28%. Harue (2), Kimiko (2), Masa (2), Atsuko, Hidetoshi, Hiromu, Hiroshi, Jiro, Katsuaki, Kazuhiko, Kikue, Kiyoko.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
