Surname

Nitta

Nitta (仁田) is a Japanese surname. Its kanji mean benevolence + rice field, and Wikidata lists 10 notable people with this family name.

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Written仁田にったbenevolence + rice field

What Nitta means

仁
benevolence
田
rice field

Where the name comes from

Like most Japanese surnames, Nitta describes a place. Its kanji point to 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