Dragon Last Names

A list by a written rule, built on 3 October 2026 from two sources. One: English Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 4.0), searched that day for surname entries that mention a dragon, a serpent or a snake. A surname is listed when the etymology of its entry glosses the name, or a word it is built from, with one of those words; the card quotes that part in the dictionary's own words, with the language of the entry in front when it is not English, and unkind nickname glosses are cut. 15 names. Two: JMnedict, the name dictionary of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group (file dated 2026-10-03, https://www.edrdg.org/enamdict/enamdict_doc.html, CC BY-SA 4.0). Listed are the two-kanji forms it tags as a surname that hold the dragon kanji (竜, or its older form 龍), where the other kanji is taught in the first four years of Japanese elementary school (KANJIDIC grade 1 to 4) and the first surname reading that splits kanji by kanji into readings KANJIDIC lists (https://www.edrdg.org/wiki/index.php/KANJIDIC_Project, CC BY-SA 4.0) reads the dragon kanji tatsu. Names whose first such reading is ryū were left out (雲竜 among them, though it is also on record as くもたつ), because many of those are ring names, temple names and art names; names ending in 子 were left out as given names, and names whose other kanji is a word for a god, a temple or a shrine were left out too. A name on record with both forms of the kanji under one surname reading is one card, led by the modern form, with the other form named on it; 34 of the 52 cards name both, and a reading on record for the older form alone is given beside it. 52 names. The meanings are KANJIDIC's first English meaning of each kanji (the second where the first is a Japanese unit of length or a bare 'in': village for 里, inside for 中), a literal reading of the characters and not a recorded origin of the family name; the reading is the first surname reading in the dictionary that splits cleanly (for 竜崎 the one both forms share), and every other surname reading the dictionary gives the leading form is named as 'also on record'. For these names the dictionary's surname tag is the only record. 4 of the 67 names (6.0 in 100) stand on another list of this site, counted on 3 October 2026 (cap 40), Japanese names matched on the kanji. Licence: Drawn from English Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/), and from JMnedict and KANJIDIC2, which are the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group and are used in conformance with the Group's licence (https://www.edrdg.org/edrdg/licence.html, CC BY-SA 4.0). The selection, the romanization and the grouping are our own work.