Given name & surname · also Hopi

Ishii

Ishii is a surname from Hopi, ultimately from Japanese. It is used in English, Spanish, French, and Tagalog.

Original Japanese石居

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Ishii comes from Hopi, and ultimately from Japanese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Japanese 石井 (Ishii).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Ishii’s family of names

In Spanish usage, Ishii as a surname was borrowed from the Japanese form 石井. In Japanese usage, Ishii as a surname is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 石居.

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Ishii石居石井

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Spellings & scripts 1

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Across languages 1

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