Given name & surname
Shibuya
“harsh valley”
Shibuya is a surname from Japanese. It is used in English and Tagalog.
Original Japanese渋谷
Meaning & origin
What it means
Shibuya goes back to Japanese 渋谷 (しぶや, Shibuya), meaning “harsh valley.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Japanese 渋谷 (しぶや, Shibuya, “harsh valley”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Shibuya’s family of names
In Filipino usage, Shibuya as a surname was borrowed from the Japanese form 渋谷.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
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