Surname

Shimabara

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

Original Japanese島原

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Shimabara comes from Japanese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Japanese 島原 (Shimabara).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Shimabara’s family of names

In English usage, Shimabara as a surname was borrowed from the Japanese form 島原.

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Shimabara島原

The ring: across languages.

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