Given name & surname
Ohtani
Ohtani is a surname from Japanese. It is used in English and Tagalog.
Original Japanese大谷
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2024. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ohtani through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 19
- 19 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2024
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #8,727 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,727 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ohtani’s family of names
In English usage, Ohtani as a surname was borrowed from the Japanese form 大谷.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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