Given name & surname

Kudo

Kudo is a surname from Japanese.

Original Japanese工藤

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Kudo comes from Japanese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Japanese 工藤 (Kudō).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Kudo’s family of names

In English usage, Kudo as a surname was borrowed from the Japanese form 工藤.

Walk Kudo’s family in the name graph

Kudo工藤

The ring: across languages.

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Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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kiko’

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Sibling ideas

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