Sugiyama Family History
- Sugiyama Name Meaning
- Japanese (mostly found along the coast between Tokyo and Kyoto): from sugi ‘cedar’ + yama ‘mountain’; in some cases it is a habitational name from a village so called in Mikawa (now part of Aichi prefecture). These bearers of the name are descended from the Fujiwara clan, while others are of Taira origin.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 8,285 Historical Documents with Sugiyama on Ancestry
- 2,520 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 920 Census and Voter Lists
- 578 Military Records
- 3,844 Immigration Records
- 423 Member Trees
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