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長谷川

“river”

長谷川 (Hasegawa) is a surname. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.

Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Hasegawa.

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Meaning & origin

What it means

長谷川 goes back to a word meaning “river.”

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How it developed

Built from Japanese 長谷 + 川 (“river”).

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長谷川 has relatives in 4 languages.

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Hasegawaborrowing · Tagalog, Hawaiian

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“from the hero's meadow; from the man's meadow”

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Daisea

“of the day's eye; resembling a flower”

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“resembling the long-legged bird”

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Yardly

“from the fenced-in meadow”

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Langleigh

“from the long meadow”

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Caubi

“forest” · “green”

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長谷川

Meaning & origin

What it means

How it developed

長谷川’s family of names

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Yoleah

Mannley

Gülajar

Daisea

Craine

Yardly

Langleigh

Caubi

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