Nishitani

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 西谷 (Nishitani).

Proper noun

Nishitani (plural Nishitanis)

1. A surname from Japanese.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Nishitani is the 193489^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 106 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Nishitani”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 671.