Surname

Sawa

Sawa (沢) is a Japanese surname. Its kanji mean marsh, and Wikidata lists 35 notable people with this family name.

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Written沢さわmarsh

What Sawa means

沢
marsh, mountain stream

Where the name comes from

The kanji of Sawa mean 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