Surname

Iinuma

Iinuma (飯沼) is a Japanese surname. Its kanji mean meal + marsh, and Wikidata lists 15 notable people with this family name.

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Written飯沼いいぬまmeal + marsh

What Iinuma means

飯
meal, rice
沼
marsh, pond

Where the name comes from

The kanji of Iinuma mean meal + marsh. 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