Surname

Kida

Kida (木田) is a Japanese surname. Its kanji mean tree + rice field, and Wikidata lists 17 notable people with this family name.

き · だ · きだ
Written木田きだtree + rice field

What Kida means

木
tree
田
rice field

Where the name comes from

Like most Japanese surnames, Kida describes a place. Its kanji point to trees and a rice field, the kind of landmark a family was known by when surnames became compulsory for everyone in 1875.

Surnames that share a kanji