American Family Name Origins:
Hamasaki
Frequency: (130)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Japanese: ‘seashore cape’; found mainly in western Japan and the Ryūkyū Islands.
GIVEN NAMES: Japanese 39%. Iwao (2), Shigemi (2), Yuzuru (2), Akira, Haru, Hidekazu, Kimiko, Kiyoshi, Miwa, Ryo, Shinji, Tomo.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
