Frequency: (1083)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Japanese: ‘forest’; variously written, found mostly in western Japan and the Ryūkyū Islands. Listed in the Shinsen shōjiroku. One family produced several noted scholars during the Tokugawa era (1600-1867).
GIVEN NAMES: Japanese 58%. Nobuo (8), Koji (5), Shigeo (5), Shigeru (5), Takashi (5), Yuzo (5), Hideki (4), Hiroshi (4), Masaki (4), Susumu (4), Toshio (4), Yoshio (4).
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