Etymology

Murakami

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Today it means: A surname from Japanese. Full definition →

Japanese 村上
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  1. Japanese · borrowed from村上
  2. English todayMurakami

Borrowed from Japanese 村上 (Murakami, literally “upper town, upper part of a town”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.