Surname

Yanagida

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

や · な · ぎ · だ · やなぎだ
Written柳田やなぎだwillow + rice field

What Yanagida means

柳
willow
田
rice field

Where the name comes from

Like most Japanese surnames, Yanagida 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