Surname

Kajiwara

Kajiwara (梶原) is a Japanese surname. Its kanji mean oar + field, and Wikidata lists 58 notable people with this family name.

か · じ · わ · ら · かじわら
Written梶原かじわらoar + field

What Kajiwara means

梶
oar
原
field, plain

Where the name comes from

Like most Japanese surnames, Kajiwara describes a place. Its kanji point to a plain, the kind of landmark a family was known by when surnames became compulsory for everyone in 1875.

Surnames that share a kanji