Surname

Kashiwabara

Kashiwabara (柏原) is a Japanese surname. Its kanji mean oak + field, and Wikidata lists 25 notable people with this family name.

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Written柏原かしわばらoak + field

What Kashiwabara means

柏
oak
原
field, plain

Where the name comes from

Like most Japanese surnames, Kashiwabara 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