Surname

Miyashita

Miyashita (宮下) is a Japanese surname. Its kanji mean shrine + below, and Wikidata lists 103 notable people with this family name.

み · や · し · た · みやした
Written宮下みやしたshrine + below

What Miyashita means

宮
shrine, palace
下
below

Where the name comes from

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

Famous people named Miyashita

Masahiro Miyashita 宮下 真洋Japanese association football player
Junichi Miyashita 宮下 純一Japanese swimmer, tarento

From Wikidata: notable Japanese people with this family name.

Surnames that share a kanji