Surname

Hamanaka

Hamanaka (浜中) is a Japanese surname. Its kanji mean beach + middle, and Wikidata lists 20 notable people with this family name.

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Written浜中はまなかbeach + middle

What Hamanaka means

浜
beach
中
middle

Where the name comes from

The kanji of Hamanaka mean beach + middle. Many surnames like it began as descriptions of a family's land, trade or position before surnames were required for every household in 1875.

Surnames that share a kanji