It is a geographical family name, widely found outside of the Tohoku and Kyushu regions.
The most common reading of “Ohtani” is “Ohtani,” but in the Tohoku region and near Ota City, Gunma Prefecture, it is often read as “Ohya.
The family descended from the Emperor Kammu and received the surname Taira from the Shibuya and Tokitada schools of the Taira clan (the Kammu Taira clan).
The Fujiwara clan (Fujiwara-shi), a clan that began with the gift of Emperor Tenchi by Nakatomi Kamatari.
The Fujiwara no Hokke, which originated from the gift of Emperor Tenchi by Nakatomi Kamatari.
Various schools of Fujiwara are distributed throughout the country.
Famous people with the last name Otani
Professional baseball player Shohei Otani was born in Mizusawa, Oshu City, Iwate Prefecture.
Population of the 大谷 surname
National Rank 155th
National population approx. 129,000
Description of this Calligraphy
The kanji Ohtani and the katakana Ootani are written vertically.
Japanese kanji may be written the same way but read differently. This is especially true in the case of names, and this Ohtani also has various readings, such as Ohya, Oya, Oogai, Daiya, Daitani, Otani, and Oogaya. Since all of them are official, when you apply for or sign a contract for something, there is a section called furigana for the kanji, where you write the reading in hiragana or katakana.
Ranked by surname (family name) in Japan.
| Ranking | Surname | approximate number of persons |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Sato | 1,853,000 |
| 2nd | Suzuki | 1,786,000 |
| 3rd | Takahashi | 1,399,000 |
| 4th | Tanaka | 1,326,000 |
| 5th | Ito | 1,065,000 |
| 6th | Watanabe | 1,055,000 |
| 7th | Yamamoto | 1,041,000 |
| 8th | Nakamura | 1,037,000 |
| 9th | Kobayashi | 1,021,000 |
| 10th | Kato | 882,000 |
| 11th | Yoshida | 823,000 |
| 12th | Yamada | 808,000 |
| 13th | Sasaki | 665,000 |
| 14th | Yamaguchi | 638,000 |
| 15th | Matsumoto | 622,000 |
| 16th | Inoue | 610,000 |
| 17th | Kimura | 571,000 |
| 18th | Hayashi | 541,000 |
| 19th | Saito | 538,000 |
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| 155th | Ohtani | 129,000 |
