Given name & surname

Yamaha

Yamaha is a surname from Japanese.

Original Japanese山葉

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Yamaha comes from Japanese.

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How it developed

From Japanese 山葉 (Yamaha).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Yamaha’s family of names

In Japanese usage, Yamaha as a surname is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 山葉. In English usage, Yamaha as a surname was borrowed from the Japanese form 山葉.

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Yamaha山葉

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