The nakanishi Surname
nakanishi Name Meaning and History
Japanese: ‘center of the west’; a habitational name taken from
villages in Yamato (now Nara prefecture), Bizen (now part of Okayama
prefecture), and others. Mostly found in western Japan and Okinawa
island.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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