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Akutagawa

Japanese surname

阿久刀川

あくたがわ · アクタガワ

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Meaning
阿: Africa, flatter, fawn upon; 久: long time, old story; 刀: sword, saber, knife; 川: stream, river, river or three-stroke river radical (no. 47)
Data status
partially verified

Kanji breakdown

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Origin landscape

A visual reading of the surname

An intentionally unresolved landscape
Reusable origin illustration: An intentionally unresolved landscape. This is a conceptual aid, not evidence of a specific ancestral location.

Origin confidence

Uncertain

Available information is not strong enough for a more specific origin statement.

JMnedict records this surname spelling and reading. KANJIDIC2 supplies the component glosses shown here; they do not establish one family origin, current popularity, or regional distribution.

This interpretation does not mean that everyone with this surname shares one ancestor or one place of origin.

Regional evidence

Distribution across Japan

Reliable regional distribution data is not yet available for this surname.

We do not infer modern population distribution from the kanji, a general origin story, or an unverified historical claim.

Green · modern population distributionRed · possible historical originLiteral inference is never mapped

Historical context

Japanese surname timeline

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Natural pairings

First names to pair with Akutagawa

Reviewed surname-specific pairings are not yet recorded for Akutagawa, so the examples below pair it with reviewed given names from this collection. Any given name can follow a Japanese family name.

阿久刀川 凛Akutagawa RinUse →阿久刀川 明里Akutagawa AkariUse →阿久刀川 結衣Akutagawa YuiUse →阿久刀川 花Akutagawa HanaUse →阿久刀川 光Akutagawa HikariUse →阿久刀川 陽翔Akutagawa HarutoUse →

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Related surnames

Surnames that share a kanji with Akutagawa

阿部AbeShares 阿 →阿部島AbeshimaShares 阿 →阿部山AbeyamaShares 阿 →阿辺山AbeyamaShares 阿 →阿武木AbukiShares 阿 →阿生山AbuyamaShares 阿 →阿田AdaShares 阿 →阿田川AdagawaShares 阿川 →

Evidence trail

Sources

These references support general name-system history, kanji readings, or the research method. They do not all establish one family lineage.

  1. JMnedict Japanese Multilingual Named Entity Dictionary

    Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group · JMnedict created 2026-08-01 · Evidence: reading kanji pair · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Accessed 2026-08-01

  2. KANJIDIC2 Kanji Database

    Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group · Evidence: meaning · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Accessed 2026-08-01