Surname

Sakurai

Sakurai is a surname from Japanese. It is used in English and Portuguese.

Original Japanese桜井

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Sakurai comes from Japanese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Japanese 桜井 (Sakurai).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Sakurai’s family of names

In Portuguese usage, Sakurai as a surname was borrowed from the Japanese form 桜井.

Walk Sakurai’s family in the name graph

Sakurai櫻井桜井

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Spellings & scripts 1

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Across languages 1

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