oTar

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Отари in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, FI Finland and 3 more, Отар in ZW Zimbabwe, TR Türkiye, Отарі in UA Ukraine and Otari in IL Israel.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

oTar is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Turkish given name1.6K records spelled oTar4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye

  Also written Ötar

• Hebrew given name52 records spelled oTar3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Israel, United States, India

  Also written אותר, Utar

36 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

oTar is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In trk-pro, 1 pasture 2 far environs 3 (summer) camp, dwelling place, village 4 herd

  as a word·StarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

• In Spanish, to spot; espy (from somewhere high)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In kdr, pasture

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In trk-pro, 1 пастбище 2 дальние страны 3 хутор, деревня 4 отара, стадо баранов

  as a word·StarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

• In Basque, ( B; H; -th- BN-ciz-mix, S; Lecl, VocBN , Dv, H ), otarre ( B, -th- BN-baig ) Ref.: A ( otar, otarre ) . "Plant de genêts" Lecl . "Terrain en pâture d'ajonc" VocBN . "Argomal grande. En S distinguen entre othar y othatze; éste se corta de dos en dos años; el primero nunca, es silvestre y abandonado, se quema" A .

  as a word·Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia

• In Basque, "(V-ger, L-ain), árgoma dura" A . Cf. oteme .

  as a word·Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name●

• Otar Korkiab. 1923GESoviet basketball player and coach (1923–2005)
• Otar Koberidzeb. 1924GESoviet actor, film director and screenwriter (1924—2015)
• Otar Taktakishvilib. 1924GEGeorgian composer (1924-1989)
• Otar Patsatsiab. 1929GEGeorgian politician
• Otar Chiladzeb. 1933GEGeorgian writer (1933–2009)
• Otar Iosselianib. 1934GEGeorgian film director (1934-2023)
• Otar Tushishvilib. 1978GEOlympic wrestler
• Otar Japaridzeb. 1987GEGeorgian ice dancer
• Oto Nemsadzeb. 1989GEnot in their usual nameGeorgian singer
• Otar Saralidzeb. 1990GEGeorgian-born Polish actor

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 73 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name oTar?

We estimate roughly 9.1 thousand people bear oTar (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does oTar have the most bearers?

oTar is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled отари.

Where is oTar most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, oTar is densest in Georgia — about 1 in 460 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.

How common is oTar compared with other names?

In Georgia, oTar is the 62nd most common given name of 34,237 given names recorded there.

Is oTar a male or female name?

oTar is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.