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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese : from a common placename meaning‘upper village’ or (less commonly) ‘planting village’; it is also read Kamimura (which can be written to mean ‘divine village’). The surname is found in western Japan and the Ryūkyūan island of Amami.

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