as a Last Name
- 814
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Yamane
Meaning & Origins
Japanese: meaning ‘mountain root’; many bearers are descended from a family which took its name from a location so named in present-day Saitama prefecture. The name is found mainly in the Tōkyō-Saitama prefectures and west-central Japan, as well as in the island of Okinawa.
| 27,606th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 814
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Hawaii
- has the most people named Yamane per capita
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