Pineland early learning center: Pineland Early Learning Center Inc

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Pineland Early Learning Center | Pineland TX

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Busy Bees Child Development Center – Chula Vista CA DAY CARE CENTER

Description: Pineland Early Learning Center is a Licensed Center – Child Care Program in Pineland TX, with a maximum capacity of 100 children. This child care center helps with children in the age range of Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School. The provider also participates in a subsidized child care program.

Additional Information: Initial License Date: 2/2/1994.

Program and Licensing Details

  • License Number:
    502465
  • Capacity:
    100
  • Age Range:
    Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School
  • Enrolled in Subsidized Child Care Program:
    Yes
  • Type of Care:
    Child Care Program
  • Initial License Issue Date:
    Feb 02, 1994

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In Japan, the surname has always carried a special sacred meaning: it played and still plays an important role in the life of a Japanese, it helps to stand out from the crowd, even in writing the Japanese put the surname before the name, because they are proud of it. The hereditary family name is passed down from generation to generation through the male line.

Contents

  1. 100 most popular surnames in Japan (list and their meaning)
  2. 430 most beautiful Japanese surnames (alphabetically)
  3. A
  4. B
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  6. D
  7. D
  8. E
  9. Y
  10. I
  11. K
  12. M
  13. H
  14. O
  15. C
  16. T
  17. U
  18. F 9001 4
  19. X
  20. C
  21. H
  22. W
  23. E
  24. Yu
  25. I
  26. About the principles of education
  27. The history of the origin of Japanese surnames
  28. About modern surnames in Japan
  29. The most harmonious Japanese surnames
  30. Conclusion

100 most popular f amilia in Japan (list and their meaning)

Officially in the Japanese Dictionary There are over 291,129 different surnames found in Japan.

The following is a ranking of Japanese surnames based on a survey by Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company.

The first 10 surnames on the list cover approximately 10% of the population, and the 100 surnames cover more than 33%.

  1. Sato (佐藤) – assistant + wisteria; dedicated to wisteria or under the auspices of wisteria.
  2. Suzuki (鈴木) is a bell tree, as of 2008 the second most common surname in Japan after Sato.
  3. Takahashi (高橋, also 高梁) is a high bridge.
  4. Tanaka (田中) – the center of the rice field, in the middle of the field.
  5. Watanabe (渡辺) – at the ferry, the older form means “ferrymen’s guild”.
  6. Itō (伊藤) — he, he + east.
  7. Nakamura (中村) is a middle village.
  8. Kobayashi (小林) is a small forest.
  9. Yamamoto (山本) is the base of the mountain.
  10. Kato (加藤) – add + wisteria.
  11. Yoshida (吉田) – happiness + rice field.
  12. Yamada (山田) is a mountain rice field.
  13. Sasaki (佐々木) – helpers + tree.
  14. Yamaguchi (山口) – mountain + entrance.
  15. Matsumoto (松本) – pine root.
  16. Inoue (井上) is a toponym, from the name of the locality.
  17. Kimura (木村) is a wooden village.
  18. Shimizu (清水) – pure water.
  19. Hayashi (林) – forest.
  20. Saito (斉藤) – cleansing (religious) + wisteria.
  21. Saito (斎藤) – another spelling in Japanese, translated means purification (religious) + wisteria.
  22. Yamasaki (山崎) – mountain + cape.
  23. Nakajima (中島) – middle + island or toponym, from the name of the area.
  24. Mori (森) is a forest, the name of two clans in Japan.
  25. Abe (阿部) – corner, shadow; sector.
  26. Ikeda, Ikeda (池田) – toponym or pond + rice field.
  27. Hashimoto, Hashimoto (橋本) – the base of the bridge, under the bridge or from the name of the city.
  28. Ishikawa (石川) is a toponym or stone river.
  29. Yamashita (山下) – under the mountain.
  30. Ogawa (小川) is a small river.
  31. Ishii (石井) is a stone well or toponym.
  32. Hasegawa (長谷川) is a long valley river.
  33. Goto (後藤) – toponym or behind, future + wisteria.
  34. Okada (岡田) – hill + rice field.
  35. Kondo (近藤) – near wisteria.
  36. Maeda (前田) – front rice field, previous rice field.
  37. Fujita (藤田) – wisteria + rice field.
  38. Endo (遠藤) – shows an attitude towards something internal.
  39. Aoki (青木) is a green tree.
  40. Sakamoto (坂本) slope + base.
  41. Murakami (村上) – village + top.
  42. Ohta or Ota (太田) – channel, river.
  43. Kaneko (金子) – gold + child.
  44. Fuji (藤井) – wisteria well.
  45. Fukuda (福田) – happiness, prosperity + rice field.
  46. Nishimura (西村) west + village.
  47. Miura (三浦) – three bays.
  48. Takeuchi (竹内) – inside the bamboo or warrior’s house.
  49. Nakagawa (中川) is the middle river.
  50. Okamoto (岡本) – hill + base.
  51. Matsuda (松田) – pine + rice field.
  52. Harada (原田) is a flat rice field.
  53. Nakano (中野) – toponym or middle + uncultivated field; plain.
  54. It (小野) is a large field or plain.
  55. Tamura (田村) – rice field + village.
  56. Fujiwara, Fujihara (藤原) is a wisteria field.
  57. Nakayama (中山) – middle + mountain.
  58. Ishida (石田) is a rocky rice field.
  59. Kojima, Ojima (小島) – a small island, an island.
  60. Wada (和田) – harmony + rice field.
  61. Morita (森田) – forest + rice field.
  62. Uchida, Uchida (内田) – inside + rice field.
  63. Shibata (柴田) – brushwood, rice field.
  64. Sakai (酒井) – a well or from the name of the area, a Japanese samurai clan is known.
  65. Hara (原) – the stomach or energy center of the body, the reservoir of vital energy.
  66. Takagi, Takaki (高木) is a tall tree.
  67. Yokoyama (横山) – side, side of the mountain.
  68. Ando (安藤) – calm + wisteria.
  69. Miyazaki, Miyasaki (宮崎) is a temple promontory.
  70. Ueda, Ueta, Ueda (上田) – top + rice field.
  71. Shimada, Shimada (島田) – Illuminated, island rice field.
  72. Kudo (工藤) – worker + wisteria.
  73. Ono (大野) – a large field or plain (there are two similar surnames, but different spellings).
  74. Miyamoto (宮本) – Founding of the temple.
  75. Sugiyama (杉山) – Japanese cedar + mountain.
  76. Imai (今井) – now + well.
  77. Maruyama (丸山) – round + mountain.
  78. Masuda (増田) – increase + rice field.
  79. Takada, Takata (高田) – high + rice field.
  80. Murata (村田) – village + rice field.
  81. Hirano (平野) – flat + uncultivated field; plain.
  82. Otsuka (大塚) is a large hill.
  83. Sugawara, Sugahara (菅原) – sedge field.
  84. Takeda, Takeda (武田) – military + rice field.
  85. Arai (新井) is a new well.
  86. Koyama, Oyama (小山) is a toponym or small mountain.
  87. Noguchi (野口) Field entrance.
  88. Sakurai (桜井) – cherry blossom well.
  89. Chiba, Chiba (千葉) – a thousand leaves.
  90. Iwasaki (岩崎) – rock + cape.
  91. Sano (佐野) – assistant + uncultivated field; plain.
  92. Taniguchi (谷口) – the mouth of the valley.
  93. Ueno (上野) – toponym or top + uncultivated field; plain.
  94. Matsui (松井) – pine + well.
  95. Kono (河野) – river + uncultivated field; plain.
  96. Ichikawa (市川) – city + river.
  97. Watanabe, Watabe (渡部) at the crossing.
  98. Nomura (野村) is a village in the field, a village in the wilderness.
  99. Kikuchi (菊地) – chrysanthemum + earth.
  100. Kinoshita (木下) – tree + under, bottom.

From the list it follows that the most common surnames in Japan were and remain: Sato; Suzuki; Takahashi; Ito; Kato; Watanabe; Yamamoto; Kobayashi; Nakamura.

However, this is more of a general picture. Each region may have its own list of the most popular surnames.

430 most beautiful Japanese surnames (in alphabetical order)

A

  1. Abiko – 安彦, 安子 or 我孫子
  2. Abe (阿部) – from the ancient word ape – to connect, mix or angular, shadow; sector
  3. Awaji – 淡路 – road to (province) Awa
  4. Agave – 阿川 – small river
  5. Agueda – Upper Rice Field
  6. Aizawa, Aisawa – 相沢
  7. Aikawa – 相川, 愛川, 愛河, 哀川, 會川 or 鮎川 – a thousand years or feelings
  8. Akamatsu – 赤松 – red pine
  9. Akiyama – 秋山 – autumn + mountain
  10. Akutagawa – 芥川
  11. Ando – 安藤 – calm + wisteria
  12. Aoki – 青木 – green, young + tree, green tree
  13. Arai – 新井 – new/wild well
  14. Arakawa – 荒川
  15. Araki – 荒木 – wild + tree
  16. Ariyoshi – 有吉
  17. Asakura – 朝倉 – morning warehouse or place name
  18. Asano – 浅野／淺野 – uncultivated field; plain
  19. Asayama – 朝山
  20. Ashihara – 芦原 – stone + plain, field; steppe
  21. Aso – 麻生
  22. Ahane – second + waves + roots
  23. Atsumi – 渥美

B

  1. Baba – 馬場 – horse + seat
  2. Bando
  3. Bushida
  4. Betsumiya – 別宮 – betsu – “special, different” (on reading) + miya – “temple” (kun reading)

B

  1. Wada – 和田 – harmony + rice field
  2. Wakairo – 十八女 – written in characters “eighteen-year-old girl”, but read as 若色 “young + color”
  3. Watabe – 渡部
  4. Watanabe – 渡辺／渡邊/渡部 – to cross + surroundings; to cross + part; sector; at the ferry, older form means “ferrymen’s guild”
  5. Watari – 渡 – from watari (jap. 渡り crossing)

G

  1. Gato
  2. Years – 郷田, 合田
  3. Goto – 後藤 – toponym or behind, future + wisteria
  4. Gushiken
  5. Genji

D

  1. Daigo
  2. Date – 伊達

E

  1. Eguchi

Yo

  1. Yokota – 横田 – side + rice field
  2. Yokoyama – 横山 – side, side of the mountain
  3. Yonemoto
  4. Yoshida – 吉田 – happiness + rice field
  5. Yoshikawa – 吉川 – happiness + river
  6. Yoshimoto – 吉本
  7. Yoshimura – 吉村 – happiness + village
  8. Yoshioka – 吉岡 – happiness + hill

I

  1. Iwamoto – 岩本 – rock + base
  2. Iwasaki – 岩崎 – rock + cape
  3. Iwata – 岩田 – rock + rice field
  4. Igarashi – 五十嵐 – 50 storms
  5. Yendo – 遠藤 – distant + wisteria
  6. Iida – 飯田 – boiled rice, food + rice field
  7. Ikaava – 井川
  8. Ikeda – 池田 – toponym or pond + rice field
  9. Ikuta – 生田 – field of life
  10. Ikeda – 池田 – pond + rice field
  11. Imada
  12. Imai – 今井 – now + well
  13. Imamura
  14. Ying – 因 – reason
  15. Inoue (井上) – toponym, from the name of the locality
  16. Inoe – 井上 – well + top
  17. Inui
  18. Ine
  19. Ishibashi – 石橋 – stone + bridge
  20. Ishida – 石田 – stone + rice field
  21. Ishii – 石井 – stone well or toponym
  22. Ishikawa – 石川 – stone + river
  23. Ishihara – 石原 – stone + plain, field; steppe
  24. Isozaki
  25. Ichijo – 条家 – first street
  26. Ichikawa – 市川 – city + river
  27. Ito – 伊東 – one, he + east
  28. Ito – 伊藤 – and + wisteria, different spelling with previous surname in Japanese
  29. Ishizaki

K

  1. Kawaguchi – 川口 – river + mouth, entrance
  2. Kawakami – 川上 – river + top
  3. Kawamura – 川村 – river + village
  4. Kawasaki – 川崎 – river + cape
  5. Kagawa
  6. Kagiyama – 鍵山
  7. Kadono
  8. Kakuta – 角田
  9. Kakutani
  10. Kamada
  11. Kamata – 鎌田 – sickle, scythe + rice field
  12. Cameo
  13. Camida
  14. Kamimura
  15. Kamiyama
  16. Kameda – 亀田
  17. Kamei – 亀井
  18. Kang – 菅
  19. Kaneda – 金田
  20. Kaneko – 金子 – gold + child
  21. Kanehara – 金原
  22. Kasai
  23. Kase
  24. Katayama – 片山 – piece + mountain
  25. Kato – 加藤 – add + wisteria
  26. Katsura
  27. Kibe
  28. Kido
  29. Kiyomizu – 清水 – consists of the stem of the adjective 清い kiyoi – “pure” and the noun 水 mizu – “water”
  30. Kikuchi – 菊地 – chrysanthemum + earth/pond
  31. Kikuchi
  32. Kimura – 木村 – tree + village or wooden village
  33. Kinoshita – 木下 – tree + under, bottom
  34. Kirishima – 霧島 – misty island
  35. China
  36. Kitazawa – 北澤 – northern swamp
  37. Kitamura – 北村 – north + village
  38. Kitano – 北野
  39. Kihara – 木原
  40. Kihira – 紀平
  41. Kobayashi, Kobayashi – 小林 – small forest
  42. Kojima, Ojima – 小島 – small + island
  43. Koike – 小池 – small + pond
  44. Kokava
  45. Komatsu – 小松 – small pine tree
  46. Komatsubara – 小松原
  47. Komuro
  48. Kondo – 近藤 – close + wisteria or near wisteria
  49. Konishi – 小西 – small + west
  50. Kono – 河野 – river + uncultivated field; plain
  51. Konoe – 近衛
  52. Kosunose – 楠瀬
  53. Kotani – 小谷
  54. Koyama, Oyama – 小山 – small mountain
  55. Kubo – 久保 – long + support or from the Japanese word kubo (Japanese 窪) – hole
  56. Kubota – 久保田 – long + maintain + rice field
  57. Kuwashima – 桑島
  58. To
  59. Kudo – 工藤 – worker + wisteria
  60. Kumagai – 熊谷 – bear + valley
  61. Kumoro – 小室
  62. Cooney
  63. Kurihara – 栗原 – chestnut + plain, field; steppe
  64. Kuroda – 黒田 – black rice field
  65. Kuroki – Ebony
  66. Kurosawa – 黒沢 – black stream, black bog

M

  1. Makino
  2. Mamura – 間村
  3. Maruyama – 丸山 – round + mountain
  4. Masuda – 増田 – increase + rice field
  5. Machida
  6. Matsubara – 松原 – pine + plain, field; steppe
  7. Matsuda – 松田 – pine + rice field
  8. Matsui – 松井 – pine + well
  9. Matsumoto – 松本 – pine + base, consists of the nouns used in the language of matsu “pine” and moto “root” or pine root
  10. Matsumura – 松村 – pine + village
  11. Matsuo – 松尾 – pine + tail
  12. Matsuoka – 松岡 – pine + hill
  13. Matsushita – 松下 – pine + under, bottom
  14. Matsuura – 松浦 – pine + bay
  15. Matsuhashi, Matsuhashi – 松橋 – pine bridge
  16. Machida
  17. Maeda – 前田 – front rice field, previous rice field
  18. Maekawa
  19. Mizuki
  20. Mizuno – 水野 – water and (uncultivated) field; plain
  21. Mizushima – 水島
  22. Mizuta – 水田
  23. Midorikawa – 緑川
  24. Mikami – 三上
  25. Minami – 南 – South
  26. Minegishi – 峯岸
  27. Miura – 三浦 – three bays
  28. Mifune – 三船
  29. Miyabe – 宮部
  30. Miyazaki, Miyasaki – 宮崎 – temple, palace + cape, lit. “temple cape” or resident of Miyazaki
  31. Miyake – 三宅 – three houses
  32. Miyamoto – 宮本 – temple, palace + base, foundation of the temple
  33. Miyata – 宮田 – temple, palace + rice field
  34. Miyahara – 宮原
  35. Mori – 森 – forest
  36. Morimoto – 森本 – forest + base
  37. Morimura – 森村 – forest village
  38. Morita – 森田 – forest + rice field
  39. Mochizuki – 望月 – full moon
  40. Mukai – 向井
  41. Murakami – 村上 – village + top
  42. Muramoto – 村元
  43. Murata – 村田 – village + rice field
  44. Murayama
  45. Muto – 武藤

N

  1. Nagai – 永井 – eternal well
  2. Nagasawa
  3. Nagashima – 長島
  4. Nagata – 永田 – Eternal Rice Field
  5. Naito – 内藤 – inside + wisteria
  6. Nakagawa – 中川 – middle + river, middle river
  7. Naqada
  8. Nakajima, Nakashima (中島) – middle + island or toponym, from the name of the area
  9. Nakai
  10. Nakamura – 中村 – middle + village, village center, middle village
  11. Nakanishi – 中西 – west + middle
  12. Nakano – 中野 – middle + (uncultivated) field; plain or toponym
  13. Nakane – 中根
  14. Nakata, Nakada – 中田 – middle + rice field
  15. Nakahara
  16. Nakayama – 中山 – middle + mountain
  17. Nanjo – 南條
  18. Narazaki – 楢崎, also – 楢﨑
  19. Narita – 成田 – form + rice field
  20. Ninomae – surname denoted by the character 一 “one”, can be translated as 二の前 ni no mae “before the deuce”
  21. Nishida – 西田 – west + rice field
  22. Nishikawa – 西川 – west + river
  23. Nishimura – 西村 – west + village
  24. Nishiyama – 西山 – west + mountain
  25. Nishio
  26. Noguchi – 野口 – (uncultivated) field; plain + mouth, entrance
  27. Noguchi – 野口 – field entrance
  28. Noda – 野田 – uncultivated field; plain + rice field
  29. Nozawa – 野沢
  30. Nomura – 野村 – village in the field, village in the wilderness

O

  1. Both
  2. Obuchi – 小渕
  3. Ogawa – 小川 – small river
  4. Ogasawara – 小笠原
  5. Ogata – 尾形, also – 緒形, 緒方
  6. Oda – 小田 – small rice field
  7. Ozawa – 小沢／小澤 – small swamp
  8. Ozaki – 尾崎 – tail + cape
  9. Oigawa – 大井川 or 大堰川
  10. Oikawa – 及川
  11. Oka – 岡 – hill
  12. Okawa – 小川
  13. Okada – 岡田 – hill + rice field
  14. Okazaki – 岡崎 – hill + cape
  15. Okamoto – 岡本 – hill + base
  16. Okubo – 大久保
  17. Okumura – 奥村 – deep (hidden) + village
  18. Okuhara – 奥原
  19. Omori
  20. Ono – 大野 – large field or plain (there are two similar surnames, but different in spelling)
  21. Ono – 小野 – large field or plain; above similar surname but different spelling in Japanese
  22. Ōnoki
  23. Ooishi – 大石 – large stone
  24. Ookubo – 大久保 – large + long + support
  25. Oomori – 大森 – big forest
  26. Oonishi – 大西 – big west
  27. Oono – 大野 – large + [uncultivated] field; plain
  28. Oosawa – 大沢／大澤 – large swamp
  29. Ooshima – 大島 – big island
  30. Oota – 太田 – large + rice field
  31. Ootani – 大谷 – big valley
  32. Oohashi – 大橋 – big bridge
  33. Ootsuka – 大塚 – large + hill
  34. Osako – 大迫
  35. Otake
  36. Otomo – 大友
  37. Ohara
  38. Ohayashi – 小林
  39. Ohta or Ota (太田) – channel, river
  40. Otsuka – 大塚 – big hill
  41. OE
  42. Oyama

С

  1. Sawada – 沢田／澤田 – swamp + rice field
  2. Saito – 斉藤／齊藤 – equal + wisteria
  3. Saito – 斎藤／齋藤 – purification (religious) + wisteria, different spellings of surnames in Japanese
  4. Saito – 斉藤 – purification (religious) + wisteria
  5. Sakai – 酒井 – well or from the name of the area, the Japanese samurai clan is known
  6. Sakakibara – 榊原
  7. Sakakura
  8. Sakamoto – 坂本 – slope + base
  9. Sakata – 坂田
  10. Sakuma
  11. Sakurai – 桜井／櫻井 – sakura + well or well of cherry blossoms
  12. Sano – 佐野 – assistant + uncultivated field; plain
  13. Sasaki – 佐々木 – helpers + tree or from ancient Japanese sasa – small
  14. Sato – 佐藤 – assistant + wisteria; dedicated to or under the auspices of wisteria
  15. Shibata – 柴田 – brushwood + rice field
  16. Shimada – 島田 – island + rice field
  17. Shimizu – 清水 – pure water
  18. Shinohara – 篠原 – undersized bamboo + plain, field; steppe
  19. Xintani – 薪谷
  20. Shiozawa – 塩沢
  21. Shiraishi – 白石
  22. Shirakawa – 白川 – white river
  23. Shiratori
  24. Shisime
  25. So – 索 – rope
  26. Dream
  27. Sugawara, Sugahara – 菅原 – sedge + plain, field; steppe or sedge field
  28. Sugimoto – 杉本 – Japanese cedar + roots
  29. Sugiyama – 杉山 – Japanese cedar + mountain
  30. Suzuki – 鈴木 – bell (bell) + tree
  31. Suzuki – 鈴木 – bell tree, the second most common surname in Japan after Sato
  32. Suto / Sudo – 須藤 – certainly + wisteria
  33. Seki – 関／關 – outpost; barrier
  34. Sekiya
  35. Sam – 瀬間

T

  1. Tagawa
  2. Taguchi – 田口 – rice floor + mouth
  3. Takagi, Takaki – 高木 – tall tree
  4. Takada, Takata – 高田 – tall + rice field
  5. Takakura –
  6. Takamine – 高峰 – high cliff
  7. Takamoto – タカモト
  8. Takamura – 高村
  9. Takano – 高野 – high + (uncultivated) field; plain
  10. Takasaki
  11. Takahashi – 高橋, also – 高梁 – high bridge
  12. Such
  13. Takayama – 高山 – high mountain
  14. Takeda, Takeda – 武田 – military + rice field
  15. Takeuchi – 竹内 – inside the bamboo or warrior’s house
  16. Takimoto
  17. Takemiya – 竹宮, 武宮
  18. Takemoto – 武本
  19. Takeuchi – 竹内 – bamboo + inside
  20. Tamura – 田村 – rice field + village
  21. Tanabe – 田辺／田邊 – rice field + neighborhood
  22. Tanaka – 田中 – rice field + middle, center of the rice field, in the middle of the field
  23. Tanigawa – 谷川 – river in the valley
  24. Taniguchi – 谷口 – valley + mouth, entrance or mouth of the valley
  25. Tachibana – 立花, also – 橘, 立華
  26. Tachimoto
  27. Cho – 兆 – trillion
  28. Chiba – 千葉 – one thousand leaves
  29. Toyota, Toyoda – 豊田
  30. Toyota – トヨタ
  31. Tokita – 時田, 鴇田
  32. Tomabechi – 苫米地
  33. Tomita – 冨田
  34. Tohsaka – 遠坂 or 登坂 or 戸坂

U

  1. Ushijima – 牛島
  2. Uchida – 内田 – inside + rice field
  3. Uchimura – 内村
  4. Uchiyama – 内山 – inside + mountain
  5. Uchida, Uchida – 内田 – inside + rice field
  6. Ueda, Ueta, Ueda – 上田 – top + rice field
  7. Uematsu
  8. Uemura – 上村
  9. Ueno – 上野 – toponym or top + uncultivated field; plain

Ф

  1. Fuji – 藤井 – wisteria well
  2. Fujiwara, Fujihara – 藤原 – wisteria + plain, field; steppe or wisteria field
  3. Fujii – 藤井 – wisteria + well
  4. Fujiki
  5. Fujimoto – 藤本 – wisteria + base
  6. Fujisawa
  7. Fujita – 藤田 – wisteria + rice field
  8. Fukuda – 福田 – happiness, prosperity + rice field
  9. Fukui – 福井 – happiness, prosperity + well
  10. Fukumoto – 福本
  11. Fukushima – 福島 – happiness, prosperity + island
  12. Fukuyama – 福山
  13. Funya no
  14. Furukawa – 古川 – old river
  15. Furuya

X

  1. Habu
  2. Haga
  3. Hagiwara – 萩原 – bicolor lespedeza + plain, field; steppe
  4. Hagino
  5. Hada
  6. Hakamada – 袴田
  7. Haku
  8. Hamada – 浜田／濱田 – coast + rice field
  9. Handa
  10. Hara – 原 – plain, field; steppe; according to another version, the stomach or the energy center of the body, the reservoir of vital energy
  11. Harada – 原田 – plain, field; steppe + paddy field or flat paddy field
  12. Haruki
  13. Hashimoto – 橋本 – bridge + base
  14. Hasegawa – 長谷川 – long + valley + river or river of a long valley
  15. Hata – 畑 – the word hata means “plantation, kitchen garden”
  16. Hattori – 服部 – clothes, subordinate + part; sector;
  17. Hashimoto, Hashimoto – 橋本 – base of the bridge, under the bridge or from the name of the city
  18. Hayakawa – 早川 – early + river
  19. Hayami
  20. Hayashi – 林 – forest
  21. Higashi – 東
  22. Higashiyama
  23. Higuchi – 樋口 – gutter; drain + mouth, input
  24. Hidaka
  25. Hino – 日野
  26. Hirai – 平井 – smooth well
  27. Hirano – 平野 – flat + uncultivated field; plain
  28. Hirata – 平田 – flat + rice field
  29. Hirose – 広瀬／廣瀬 – wide fast current
  30. Hojo – 北条氏
  31. Hozumi – 穂積 – harvesting, sometimes written as 八月一日 (“first day of the eighth lunar month”) – this day in ancient times the harvest began
  32. Homma – 本間 – base + gap, room, luck
  33. Honda – 本田 – base (hon) + rice field
  34. Hori – 堀 – channel
  35. Horii – 堀井, 堀居
  36. Horikawa – 堀川
  37. Hoshi – 星, 保志
  38. Hoshino – 星野 – star + [uncultivated] field; plain
  39. Hosono – 細野

C

  1. Tsubaki
  2. Tsuburaya – 円谷
  3. Tsujii – 辻 – street
  4. Tsuruga
  5. Tsuchiya – 土屋 – land + house

H

  1. Chiba, Chiba – 千葉 – thousand leaves
  2. Chikafuji
  3. Chinen
  4. Chisaka

W

  1. Shibata – 柴田 – brushwood, rice field
  2. Shimada, Shimada – 島田 – illuminated, island rice field

E

  1. Ebihara – 海老原
  2. Ejiri
  3. Emoto
  4. Endo – 遠藤, 沿道, 淵東 – shows attitude towards something internal
  5. Enomoto

Yu

  1. Yui
  2. Yumake
  3. Yusa – 遊佐
  4. Yuyama – 湯山

I

  1. Yagami – 八神
  2. Yamaguchi – 山口 – mountain + entrance
  3. Yamada – 山田 – mountain + rice field or mountain rice field
  4. Yamazaki, Yamasaki – 山崎 – mountain + cape
  5. Yamaki – 山木
  6. Yamamoto – 山本 – mountain + base or base of the mountain
  7. Yamamura
  8. Yamanaka – 山中 – mountain + middle
  9. Yamane – 山根
  10. Yamasaki – 山崎 – mountain + cape
  11. Yamashita – 山下 – mountain + under, down or under the mountain
  12. Yamauchi – 山内 – mountain + inside
  13. Yanagida – 柳田
  14. Yanagizawa – 柳沢
  15. Yano – 矢野 – arrow + (uncultivated) field; plain
  16. Yasuda – 安田 – calm + rice field
  17. Yatabe – 矢田部
  18. Yaegashi – 八重

On the principles of education

The countries of Asia have always stood apart in the world. Their culture, traditions and customs are so different from Western ones that sometimes it seems as if they live in a completely different world. And if most of the surnames in the culture of different countries were formed plus or minus according to the same principles, in Japan the traditions of forming these proper names are somewhat different.

Chinese surnames are considered the most ancient in the world. The appearance of the first of them was recorded more than 3,000 years ago, when in Europe they started talking about such a concept only in the 11th century.

Things are even worse with the neighbor of South Korea – there are only about 200 surnames, the most common of which are Kim, Li, Choi, Tszyu. They make up 50% of the total population.

The most popular and numerous are surnames, the type of which comes from toponyms. They make up about 70-80% of the total family volume. This includes:

  • names of geographical objects;
  • plant names;
  • names of objects of inanimate nature.

Next are the surnames, the main part of which are hieroglyphs with the names of parts of the world and other spaces. The third group includes various adjectives.

And from all these “components” this or that surname is formed. The combinations can be endless, hence the inability to fix the exact number of proper names in Japan.

More often in Japanese, you can hear surnames formed from court officials (for example, Konoe, Dazai).

As for another common practice – the formation of surnames from the name of the father, in Japan this principle is practically not used. Fathers’ names are usually inherited by sons in given names rather than surnames.

History of the origin of Japanese surnames

Now that everything has been said about the uniqueness of Japanese surnames, we can talk about their history. Until the 19th century, in Japan, surnames were given only to aristocrats (or kuge – for locals) and samurai (or bushi). All other inhabitants of the country had to make do with nicknames and names.

The most notable are the following surnames (genus Fujiwara):

  • Takashi;
  • Kujo;
  • Gojo;
  • Ichijo;
  • Konoe.

Some Japanese took the names of the towns and villages in which they lived as surnames, while others took the name of the shop where they worked. Especially creative were surnames from the names of plants, seasons, weather phenomena.

About modern surnames in Japan

The new generation of Japanese has been trying for a long time to expand the old and well-established list of nominal hieroglyphs (including family hieroglyphs). As a result, they achieved their goal, and completely new surnames with original sound and spelling appeared in language practice, unlike what was before.

However, it’s funny that rather “extravagant” hieroglyphs were included in the updated list, as well as signs with a strange nominal meaning: “beetle”, “frog”, “spider”, “turnip”.

The Japanese, who are extremely sensitive to such liberties in relation to children, quickly became indignant, and therefore the country’s Ministry of Justice urgently excluded from the updated list frank inappropriate hieroglyphs, for example, “buttock”, “curse”, “malice” and other.

In Japan, any adult can take a pseudonym, and after death he receives a new, posthumous name (kaimyo), which is carved on a wooden tablet (ihai). This is a kind of embodiment of the spirit of the deceased, because most Japanese believe in rebirth and try not to get attached to such trifles as, for example, a personal name and surname in one of their lives.

The most euphonious Japanese surnames

The peculiarity of Japanese surnames is that almost all of them are euphonious. Either the matter is in the principles of education, or in the phenomena from which proper names come, or in everything at once.

The most harmonious are the following surnames:

  • Yamaguchi;
  • Inoe;
  • Kimura;
  • Saito;
  • Hayashi;
  • Maury;
  • Yamazaki;
  • Ikeda;
  • Maeda;
  • Fujita;
  • Hashimoto.

In Japan, as well as in America, for example, surnames are practically not tied to gender. Moreover, the wife is obliged to take her husband’s surname after marriage, since the family line is inherited exclusively through the male line.

However, there are still a few remarkable surnames that are more associated with the feminine:

  • Akiyama;
  • Kaneko;
  • Araki;
  • Isis;
  • Ishikawa;
  • Wada;
  • Mizuno.

Conclusion

The tradition of surname formation in Japan stands out against the background of traditions in other countries. This concerns not only linguistic principles, but also, for example, historical ones. Therefore, when it comes to Asian proper names, Japan should always be discussed separately. Many traditions that have developed millennia ago are still active in this country today.

Lyudmila Golubeva

Curator of the “Family Surname” project, specializes in the study of surnames since 2012 and genealogical research, higher professional education (2003 – 2008), advanced training courses.