Surname · Chinese · Japanese
松平
“pine tree”·“plain”
松平 (Matsudaira) is a surname. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.
Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Matsudaira.
Meaning & origin
What it means
松平 is built from elements meaning “pine tree” and “plain”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
Built from Japanese 松 (matsu, “pine tree”) + 平 (taira, “plain”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
松平’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
Similar names
If you love 松平, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
Yoleah
“resembling the violet flower”
—
Mannley
“from the hero's meadow; from the man's meadow”
>99% boys
Gülajar
“flower” · “appearance”
—
Daisea
“of the day's eye; resembling a flower”
—
Craine
“resembling the long-legged bird”
—
Yardly
“from the fenced-in meadow”
71% boys · 29% girls
Langleigh
“from the long meadow”
—
Caubi
“forest” · “green”
>99% boys