Kita
[kiːtə]Meaning
Japanese 北 (kita), "north"; Polish kita, "crest, bunch, sheaf; tail"
Background Story
Kita is a Japanese and Polish surname. As a Japanese surname it can be written various ways in kanji, including 北, "north", 木田, "field of trees", and 喜多, "many happinesses"; as a Polish surname it is derived from the nickname kita, meaning "crest, bunch, sheaf; tail". English borrowed the word from Japanese 北 (きた, Kita). User-submitted entries record it as a given name in Croatian, where it is feminine, and, rarely and archaically, in Japanese.
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