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Matsuo

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese (mostly found in the islands of Kyūshū and Okinawa) : written with characters meaning ‘pine tree’ and ‘lower slope (of a mountain)’. One family is of priestly (Shintō) origin; two others descend from branches of the Taira and Minamoto clans.

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