Given name & surname

Tajiri

Tajiri is a surname from Japanese.

Original Japanese田尻

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Tajiri comes from Japanese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Japanese 田尻 (Tajiri).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1974. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Tajiri through the years

Babies since 1880
37
37 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
2001
8 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
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Tajiri in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1974–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 2001. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 157 as a surname in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Tajiri’s family of names

In Japanese usage, Tajiri as a surname is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 田尻. In English usage, Tajiri as a surname was borrowed from the Japanese form 田尻.

Walk Tajiri’s family in the name graph

Tajiri田尻

The ring: spellings.

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Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

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Sibling ideas

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