Surname

Kawahara

Kawahara is a surname from Japanese.

Original Japanese川原

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Kawahara comes from Japanese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Japanese 河原 (Kawahara).

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Kawahara’s family of names

In Japanese usage, Kawahara as a surname is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 川原. In English usage, Kawahara as a surname was borrowed from the Japanese form 河原.

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Kawahara川原河原

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Spellings & scripts 1

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Across languages 1

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