Ishikawa

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 石川 (Ishikawa).

Proper noun

Ishikawa (countable and uncountable, plural Ishikawas)

1. Ishikawa prefecture, a prefecture in Northern central region of Japan.
2. A surname from Japanese.

Derived terms

• Ishikawa diagram

Translations

Ishikawa, Japan

• Arabic: إِيشِيكَاوَا‎ f (ʔišikāwā)
• Azerbaijani: İsikava
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 石川 (zh) (Shíchuān)

• Czech: Išikawa
• Japanese: 石川 (ja) (いしかわ, Ishikawa), 石川県 (ja) (いしかわけん, Ishikawa-ken)
• Korean: 이시카와 (Isikawa)
• Marathi: इशिकावा (iśikāvā)
• Russian: Исика́ва f (Isikáva)
• Thai: อิชิกาวะ (ì-chí-gaa-wá)
• Turkish: İşikava

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Ishikawa is the 16833^rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1696 individuals. Ishikawa is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (80.31%) individuals.

See also

• (prefectures of Japan) Japan; Aichi, Akita, Aomori, Chiba, Ehime, Fukui, Fukuoka, Fukushima, Gifu, Gunma, Hiroshima, Hokkaidō, Hyōgo, Ibaraki, Ishikawa, Iwate, Kagawa, Kagoshima, Kanagawa, Kōchi, Kumamoto, Kyoto, Mie, Miyagi, Miyazaki, Nagano, Nagasaki, Nara, Niigata, Ōita, Okayama, Okinawa, Osaka, Saga, Saitama, Shiga, Shimane, Shizuoka, Tochigi, Tokushima, Tokyo, Tottori, Toyama, Wakayama, Yamagata, Yamaguchi, Yamanashi

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Ishikawa”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 234.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 石川 (Ishikawa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.ʃi.ka.wa/

Proper noun

Ishikawa ?

1. a surname from Japanese

Japanese

Romanization

Ishikawa

1. Rōmaji transcription of いしかわ

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 石川 (Ishikawa).

Proper noun

Ishikawa m or f by sense

1. a surname from Japanese

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Hepburn romaji of Japanese 石川 (Ishikawa).

Proper noun

Ishikawa

1. a surname from Japanese