Surname · Japanese
ふるさと
“something ancient, old, in the past”·“village; home”
ふるさと (Furusato) is a surname from Old Japanese. It is used in Japanese.
JapaneseWritten in Japanese kana script. In English: Furusato.
Meaning & origin
What it means
ふるさと is built from elements meaning “something ancient, old, in the past” and “village; home”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old Japanese ふるさと (purusato₁), built from Japanese ふる (furu, “something ancient, old, in the past”) + 里 (sato, “village; home”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
ふるさと’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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