Uehara Family History
Uehara Name Meaning
Japanese: written 上原 ‘upper plain’. It is from a common placename also sometimes pronounced Kamihara (which can be written 神原 to mean ‘divine plain’). The surname like the placename is found throughout Japan and the Ryūkyū Islands. Commonly Romanized as Uyehara in older immigrant families.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022