Surname

Umehara

Umehara (梅原) is a Japanese surname. Its kanji mean plum + field, and Wikidata lists 15 notable people with this family name.

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Written梅原うめはらplum + field

What Umehara means

梅
plum
原
field, plain

Where the name comes from

Like most Japanese surnames, Umehara 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