His sons were MINAMOTO no Yorihiro, MINAMOTO no Yorisuke, MINAMOTO no Yorizane, MINAMOTO no Sanekuni, MINAMOTO no Yoritsuna, MINAMOTO no Kunifusa, MINAMOTO no Moromitsu and others, and of these sons, Yorizane, Yoritsuna and Moromitsu left their names behind as a poet, and Yorisuke, Yoritsuna and Kunifusa had descendants who inscribed their names in various forms upon history in later years as a military family.
男子では源頼弘、源頼資、源頼実、源実国、源頼綱、源国房、源師光などがあり、頼実、頼綱、師光は歌人として名を残しているほか、頼資、頼綱、国房らの子孫は後代武門として様々な形で歴史に名を刻んでいる。