Surname

Yamashiro

Yamashiro is a surname from Japanese. It is used in English, Portuguese, and Tagalog.

Original Japanese山城

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Yamashiro comes from Japanese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Japanese 山城 (Yamashiro).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Yamashiro’s family of names

In Filipino usage, Yamashiro as a surname was borrowed from the Japanese form 山城.

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Yamashiro山城

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