Surname · Japanese
祇園
“grove of Jeta”
祇園 (Gion) is a surname from Sanskrit. It is used in Japanese.
JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Gion.
Meaning & origin
What it means
祇園 goes back to Sanskrit जेतवन (Jetavana), meaning “grove of Jeta.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Sanskrit जेतवन (Jetavana, “grove of Jeta”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
祇園’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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