Otha — boys' name

What the Data Says About Otha

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,386 babies named Otha between 1880 and 2018, spanning 139 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Otha currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 140 babies received it in a single year. Otha is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,403 additional births since 1887.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Otha performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 1,172 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Otha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Mississippi, which accounts for 926 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Otha in 20 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Otha in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 6,386 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.