- 2,161
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Yamaguchi
Meaning & Origins
Japanese: from a very common place name. The meaning as now written is ‘mountain entrance’, but originally the full meaning was ‘entrance to the mountain forest’ (yamabayashi no iriguchi). The surname occurs most frequently in western Japan. It is listed in the Shinsen shōjiroku.
| 12,313th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 2,161
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Hawaii
- has the most people named Yamaguchi per capita
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