Otho
Otho is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 322nd, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1915109 births
- Best rank
- #322in 1881
- Since 1880
- 3,328people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,328 boys have been named Otho in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 109 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 109 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1922, and the 1920s alone account for 24%. It has spent 60 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Otho | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 214 | |
| 1890s | 177 | |
| 1900s | 241 | |
| 1910s | 755 | |
| 1920s | 784 | |
| 1930s | 471 | |
| 1940s | 285 | |
| 1950s | 182 | |
| 1960s | 117 | |
| 1970s | 76 | |
| 1980s | 21 | |
| 1990s | 5 |
In 1915, its biggest year
Otho was the 533rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1915 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1915.
Names that rose and fell with Otho
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Sampeak 1918
- Melvillepeak 1918
- Henerypeak 1928
- Roscoepeak 1920
- Adolphpeak 1917
- Lutherpeak 1922
- Monroepeak 1921
- Abepeak 1917
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.