Meaning of Yamaguchi as a noun

The entrance to a mountain. The gateway to a mountain.
In falconry, the act of first entering the hunting ground to begin the hunt. Also, that location. The entrance to the hunting ground.
The first sign or indication of something.
A woodcutter beginning to fell trees in the mountains.

Yamaguchi as a place

A place name in central Yamaguchi Prefecture. The prefectural capital. An abbreviation for Yamaguchi Prefecture.

A prefecture occupying the westernmost part of Japan’s Chugoku region, facing the Sea of Japan to the north, the Hibiki-nada to the west, and the Seto Inland Sea to the south.

An old village name in Kiso District, southwestern Nagano Prefecture.

Hello, Mr. Yamaguchi. This is an explanation of the origin of the surname Yamaguchi, which is shared by your ancestors and friends.

A surname derived from topography. Since it is widely scattered across various regions, it is rarely inherited through specific clans or place names. It is thought to originate from the entrance to a highway passing through mountainous areas, the entrance to a mine, or a settlement at the foot of a mountain.
In Japan, Yamaguchi ranks 14th in frequency, with approximately 600,000 people bearing the surname.

Clasificación de apellidos de estadounidenses de origen japonés (Oficina del Censo de EE. UU., encuesta de 1990)

In the Japanese American surname ranking, it is 44th.

	Apellido	Kanji	Suplemento
1	Tanaka		4º en Japón
2	Yamamoto		8º en Japón
3	Nakamura	・・・	7º en Japón
4	Watanabe	・・・	6º en Japón
5	Sato		1º en Japón
6	Yamada		12º en Japón
7	Kimura	(escrito verticalmente)	17º en Japón
8	Suzuki	(escrito verticalmente)	2º en Japón
9	Kato		10º en Japón
10	Yoshida		11º en Japón
11	Takahashi		3º en Japón
12	Higa		1.º en Okinawa , Japón
13	Kobayashi		9º en Japón
14	Nakano	・・・	46º en Japón
15	Hayashi		20 en Japón
16	Hashimoto		24º en Japón
17	Saito	・・・	19º en Japón
18	Sasaki		13º en Japón
19	Mori	・・・	22º en Japón
20	matsumoto	(escrito verticalmente)	15º en Japón
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44	Yamaguchi		14th in Japan