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Otto
Pronounced /ˈɑtoʊ/
Rank in 2024
#274
Born in 2024
1,239
Peak year
2024 · #274
Origin
Germanic
1880 to 2024
RisingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 1,239 boys were named Otto, about 1 in every 1,384.
- 2024 is its biggest year on record.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 38,669 boys have been named Otto since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Otto per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.7Greatest1901–27
- 0.3Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- 0.4Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 11,714 babies, 0.70 per 1,000. Silent: 5,277 babies, 0.26 per 1,000. Boomers: 2,865 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,241 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Millennials: 943 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,038 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 9,170 babies, 0.42 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Borrowed from German Otto, from Old High German, short form of compound names (such as Otachar, Ottokar) beginning with Proto-West Germanic *aud, from Proto-Germanic *audaz (“wealth, riches”) (cognate of English Ed- in Edgar, Edmund, Edward, Edith, etc.).
- A male given name from the Germanic languages.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- /ˈɑtoʊ/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Otto, CC BY-SA 4.0.