Ota
Ota was last recorded in 1937, when 5 babies were given it; 215 Americans have been recorded with it between 1881 and 1937 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ota by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ota mean?
Wiktionary, Czech section
Ota is “a male given name, equivalent to English Otto”
[ˈota]
Meaning: Wiktionary, Czech section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ota?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #4,769, in 1937; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1916, the peak
Ota peaked in 1916, when 13 girls were given it, #2,458 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 5 | #4,769 | 4.7 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,419 | 4.2 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,335 | 5.8 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,697 | 4.0 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,883 | 5.0 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,939 | 6.5 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,838 | 5.0 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,675 | 5.3 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,404 | 4.3 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,298 | 8.3 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1916 | 13 | #2,458 | 12.4 |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,142 | 6.1 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,584 | 11.8 |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,088 | 17.7 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,898 | 20.3 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,157 | 17.1 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,615 | 25.4 |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,153 | 16.7 |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,361 | 30.0 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,648 | 23.2 |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,512 | 25.6 |
| 1896 | 7 | #1,389 | 29.4 |
| 1894 | 8 | #1,214 | 35.9 |
| 1893 | 9 | #1,073 | 42.3 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,411 | 28.3 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,490 | 27.0 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,434 | 28.0 |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,249 | 33.6 |
| 1887 | 6 | #1,126 | 41.1 |
| 1885 | 6 | #1,021 | 45.1 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,131 | 38.8 |
| 1882 | 6 | #878 | 55.6 |
| 1881 | 7 | #728 | 76.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ota a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ota has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ota: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ota, and how old are they?
An estimated 2 Americans named Ota and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 497 babies since 1880, Ota is the most given (43% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ota
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ota and names like it
- Compare Ota and OtieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sOta peaked in 1916.
- Czech namesWiktionary’s origin for Ota: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Ota.
- Names starting with OMost given first.