Given name & surname

Okawa

Okawa is a surname from Japanese.

Original Japanese大川

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Okawa comes from Japanese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Japanese 大川 (Ōkawa).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Okawa’s family of names

In English usage, Okawa as a surname was borrowed from the Japanese form 大川.

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