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Updated February 20, 2024

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Girl name origins & meanings

  • Japanese : Ten thousand

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian (Sicily) : unexplained. It may be from the Albanian personal name Maqo. Derivation from a Greek name ending in -akis, which has been suggested, is implausible.
  • Japanese : ‘town’ or ‘street’, not common in Japan. Some occurrences in America could be shortened versions of longer names beginning with this element.

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