Surname

Kurosawa

Kurosawa is a surname from Japanese.

Original Japanese黒沢

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Kurosawa comes from Japanese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Japanese 黒沢 (Kurosawa).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Kurosawa’s family of names

In English usage, Kurosawa as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Куроса́ва. In English usage, Kurosawa as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Arabic form كُورُوسَاوَا. In English usage, Kurosawa as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Marathi form कुरोसावा.

Walk Kurosawa’s family in the name graph

Kurosawa黒澤黑澤黒沢Куроса́ваकुरोसावा쿠로사와كُورُوسَاوَا

Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.

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Around the world

Kurosawa has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Japanese roots to each of them.

Japanese

Japanesewhere Kurosawa comes from · 3 names

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Spellings & scripts 3

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 4

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

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