Surname
Fukuyama
“blessing mountain”
Fukuyama is a surname from Japanese. It is used in English and Tagalog.
Original Japanese服山
Meaning & origin
What it means
Fukuyama goes back to Japanese 福山 (ふくやま, Fukuyama), meaning “blessing mountain.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Japanese 福山 (ふくやま, Fukuyama, “blessing mountain”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Fukuyama’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Fukuyama as a surname is a Roman-alphabet rendering of ふくやま. In Japanese usage, Fukuyama as a surname is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 服山. In English usage, Fukuyama as a surname was borrowed from the Japanese form 福山.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
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.
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