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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese : ‘long swamp’; though written with different characters today, it is of the same origin as Nakazawa, both being common place names. The surname is found mostly in central Japan. One family of Minamoto origin came from Nagasawa-zato in Etchū (now Toyama prefecture).

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