Surname
Gondō
Gondō (権藤) is a Japanese surname. Its kanji mean authority + wisteria, and Wikidata lists 13 notable people with this family name.
ごん · ど · う · ごんどう
What Gondō means
権
authority
藤
wisteria
Where the name comes from
The ending 藤 (wisteria), read tō, links Gondō to the Fujiwara clan, the court family that dominated Japan for centuries. Surnames such as Satō, Itō, Katō and Saitō are traditionally explained as branches of the Fujiwara, with the first kanji marking a place or office.