Origin Displayed: Japanese
Spelling variations of this family name include: Suzuki, Susuki, Sazuki and others.First found in the Heian period, when members of the higher classes first began to assume surnames that were based on their occupations, their cities of origin, or a locational feature of their places of residence.
Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Tetsukichi Suzuki, who emigrated from Shizuoka to San Francisco in 1903; Kazotaru Suzuki, a native of Hiroshima who immigrated to Utah in 1904; Sugaharu Suzuki, a physician from Shizuoka who came to Seattle in 1904.
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