Surname · Chinese · Japanese
松
“to hold”
松 (Matsu) is a surname from Old Japanese, ultimately from Proto-Japonic. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.
Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Matsu.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
松 comes from Old Japanese, and ultimately from Proto-Japonic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Japanese usage, 松 as a surname is a short form of 約まる.
松’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 松 as a surname is a short form of 約まる. In Japanese usage, 松 as a surname can be written in the Roman alphabet as Matsu.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
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.
People named 松
- Han SongChinese science fiction writer and journalistborn 1965
- Xue SongChinese badminton playerborn 1994
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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