Frequency: (282)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. Japanese: ‘north’; variously written, found mostly in western Japan and Okinawa Island. In America, some instances of the name may be the result of shortening other names beginning with Kita.
2. Polish: nickname from Polish kita ‘brush’ (as in a fox's brush), ‘crest’.
GIVEN NAMES: Japanese 20%; Polish 5%.Kenji (2), Nobuo (2), Eriko, Hirohito, Hitoshi, Ichiro, Kanae, Kazuo, Makoto, Masato, Nobuyuki, Sadao; Andrzej, Czeslaw, Lukasz, Stanislaw, Zdzislaw.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
