Given name & surname

Kashiwa

Kashiwa is a feminine given name from Japanese.

Original Japanese樫羽

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Kashiwa comes from Japanese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Japanese かしわ (Kashiwa).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Kashiwa’s family of names

In English usage, Kashiwa was borrowed from the Japanese form かしわ. In Japanese usage, Kashiwa as a surname is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 樫羽.

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Kashiwa柏樫羽かしわ

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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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