Surname · Chinese · Japanese
村上
“upper town, upper part of a town”
村上 (Murakami) is a surname. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.
Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Murakami.
Meaning & origin
What it means
村上 goes back to a word meaning “upper town, upper part of a town.”
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