Kawai Family History
- Kawai Name Meaning
- Japanese: variously written, the original meaning is ‘meeting of (two) rivers’. An ancient family by this name is listed in the Shinsen shojiroku. The most usual renderings are found mostly in eastern Japan; families in different localities seem to have their own different ways of writing the name. In Okinawa Island, it is written with characters meaning ‘river well’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 8,870 Historical Documents with Kawai on Ancestry
- 2,151 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,402 Census and Voter Lists
- 476 Military Records
- 3,936 Immigration Records
- 905 Member Trees
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Number of Kawai families
 2 - 1  2 - 1 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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