Surname · Japanese
杉
杉 (Sugi) is a surname from Old Japanese, ultimately from Proto-Japonic. It is used in Japanese.
JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Sugi.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
杉 comes from Old Japanese, and ultimately from Proto-Japonic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old Japanese 杉 (sugi₂), from Proto-Japonic *sunkOi.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
杉’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 杉 as a surname can be written in the Roman alphabet as SUGI. In Japanese usage, 杉 as a surname has a related form in 椙. In Japanese usage, 杉 as a surname has a related form in 𪳳.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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