Given name & surname
Murakami
“upper town, upper part of a town”
Murakami is a surname from Japanese. It is used in English and French.
Original Japanese村上
Meaning & origin
What it means
Murakami goes back to Japanese 村上 (Murakami), meaning “upper town, upper part of a town.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Japanese 村上 (Murakami, “upper town, upper part of a town”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Murakami’s family of names
In English usage, Murakami as a surname was borrowed from the Japanese form 村上.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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