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Officially, among Japanese names there are 291,129 different Japanese surnames (姓, sei), as determined by their kanji, although many of these are pronounced and romanized similarly. Conversely, some surnames written the same in kanji may also be pronounced differently. [2]
Male names occasionally end with the syllable -ko as in Mako, but very rarely using the kanji 子 (most often, if a male name ends in -ko, it ends in -hiko, using the kanji 彦 meaning "boy"). Common male name endings are -shi and -o; names ending with -shi are often adjectives, e.g., Atsushi, which might mean, for example, "(to be) faithful."
Most Malaysians do not use a family last name. There is only a small number of ethnic groups which maintain family names, such as the Malaysian Chinese and some East Malaysian natives. Nepal. Surnames in Nepal are divided into three origins; Indo-Aryan languages, Tibeto-Burman languages and indigenous origins.
As Japanese citizens, Okinawans today comply with the Japanese family register ( koseki) system. Accordingly, an Okinawan name has only two components, a family name and a given name. A family name is called myōji (苗字 or 名字), uji (氏) or sei (姓), and a given name is called the "front name" (名前, namae) or "lower name" (下の ...
Pages in category "Japanese masculine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,417 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Mon (crest) Yamaguchi-gumi (六代目山口組, Rokudaime Yamaguchi-gumi) The Yamaguchi-gumi is the largest yakuza family, with about 8,200 members. "Yamabishi" (山菱) Sumiyoshi-kai (住吉会) The Sumiyoshi-kai is the second-largest yakuza family, with 4,200 members. Sumiyoshi-kai is a confederation of smaller yakuza groups. Its current head ...
Japanese-language surnames of Chinese origin (1 P) Pages in category "Japanese-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 2,982 total.
His great-grandson was Kan'yamato Iwarebiko, later known as Emperor Jimmu, the first emperor of Japan. Ōmononushi (大物主神) in the Nihongi, Ōmononushi was considered an alternate name for Ōkuninushi. But, it appears that the two were separate kami. Ōkuninushi (大国主) A god of nation-building, farming, business, and medicine.