Given name & surname · also Marathi
Date
“a city in Hokkaido Prefecture”
Date is a surname from Marathi, ultimately from Japanese.
Original Japanese伊達
Meaning & origin
What it means
Date goes back to Japanese 伊達 (Date), meaning “a city in Hokkaido Prefecture.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Date comes from Marathi, and ultimately from Japanese.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Marathi दाते, from Sanskrit दाता, from Japanese 伊達 (Date, “a city in Hokkaido Prefecture”); its root is Sanskrit दा.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Date’s family of names
In English usage, Date as a surname was borrowed from the Japanese form 伊達.
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