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Otis
Pronounced /ˈoʊtɪs/
Rank in 2024
#732
Born in 2024
358
Peak year
1920 · #146
Origin
Germanic
1880 to 2024
RisingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 358 boys were named Otis, about 1 in every 4,791.
- It peaked in 1920 with 1,031 babies, ranked #146.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 60,653 boys have been named Otis since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Otis per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 1.0Greatest1901–27
- 0.7Silent1928–45
- 0.4Boomers1946–64
- 0.2Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- 0.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 16,389 babies, 0.98 per 1,000. Silent: 13,477 babies, 0.65 per 1,000. Boomers: 13,217 babies, 0.35 per 1,000. Gen X: 6,184 babies, 0.23 per 1,000. Millennials: 3,009 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,775 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 4,035 babies, 0.19 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
A patronymic surname derived from Middle English genitive case of the Germanic given name Ote, Ode, cognate to modern Otto.
- A patronymic surname derived from Middle English genitive case of the Germanic given name Ote, Ode, cognate to modern Otto.
- A surname transferred from the given name, notably of the American revolutionary hero James Otis and the innovator and industrialist Elisha Otis.
- (chiefly US) A male given name from the Germanic languages, transferred from the surname.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- /ˈoʊtɪs/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Otis, CC BY-SA 4.0.