Murakami Family History
Murakami Name Meaning
Japanese: written 村上 ‘above the village’. It is found mostly in west-central Japan and the island of Okinawa. It is also the patronymic of the Murakami Genji a branch of the Minamoto clan descended from several sons of the Emperor Murakami (926–967).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022