Otho
Otho was last recorded in 1991, when 5 babies were given it; 3,328 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Otho by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Otho?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,219, in 1991; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
109 babies in 1915, the peak
Otho peaked in 1915, when 109 boys were given it, #533 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 5 | #9,219 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,518 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #7,035 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,994 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #6,033 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,772 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 13 | #3,154 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,423 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,280 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,754 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (104)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 8 | #3,965 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,314 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,294 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 12 | #2,838 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,281 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,580 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,923 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,370 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 15 | #2,145 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 15 | #2,173 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 11 | #2,635 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 15 | #2,166 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 14 | #2,308 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 22 | #1,758 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 18 | #1,952 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 12 | #2,468 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 18 | #1,934 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 19 | #1,873 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 18 | #1,888 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 13 | #2,285 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 24 | #1,575 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 21 | #1,692 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 21 | #1,671 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 18 | #1,793 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 27 | #1,422 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 28 | #1,393 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 28 | #1,414 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 17 | #1,796 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 30 | #1,223 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 24 | #1,392 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 41 | #1,070 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 22 | #1,521 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 43 | #984 | 0.04 |
| 1940 | 25 | #1,358 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 44 | #951 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 46 | #936 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 37 | #1,068 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 45 | #921 | 0.04 |
| 1935 | 46 | #937 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 44 | #967 | 0.04 |
| 1933 | 52 | #865 | 0.05 |
| 1932 | 53 | #884 | 0.05 |
| 1931 | 54 | #877 | 0.05 |
| 1930 | 50 | #965 | 0.05 |
| 1929 | 62 | #835 | 0.06 |
| 1928 | 62 | #842 | 0.06 |
| 1927 | 64 | #846 | 0.06 |
| 1926 | 72 | #763 | 0.06 |
| 1925 | 78 | #743 | 0.07 |
| 1924 | 98 | #651 | 0.09 |
| 1923 | 62 | #866 | 0.06 |
| 1922 | 103 | #640 | 0.09 |
| 1921 | 101 | #639 | 0.09 |
| 1920 | 82 | #719 | 0.08 |
| 1919 | 89 | #653 | 0.09 |
| 1918 | 89 | #655 | 0.09 |
| 1917 | 104 | #584 | 0.11 |
| 1916 | 88 | #626 | 0.10 |
| 1915 | 109 | #533 | 0.13 |
| 1914 | 82 | #544 | 0.13 |
| 1913 | 65 | #538 | 0.13 |
| 1912 | 66 | #488 | 0.15 |
| 1911 | 32 | #530 | 0.14 |
| 1910 | 31 | #510 | 0.16 |
| 1909 | 26 | #514 | 0.16 |
| 1908 | 30 | #447 | 0.19 |
| 1907 | 17 | #628 | 0.12 |
| 1906 | 20 | #517 | 0.15 |
| 1905 | 26 | #427 | 0.20 |
| 1904 | 23 | #448 | 0.18 |
| 1903 | 18 | #517 | 0.15 |
| 1902 | 36 | #329 | 0.29 |
| 1901 | 24 | #391 | 0.23 |
| 1900 | 21 | #528 | 0.14 |
| 1899 | 17 | #472 | 0.16 |
| 1898 | 15 | #564 | 0.12 |
| 1897 | 18 | #469 | 0.16 |
| 1896 | 23 | #415 | 0.19 |
| 1895 | 15 | #548 | 0.13 |
| 1894 | 18 | #477 | 0.16 |
| 1893 | 19 | #428 | 0.17 |
| 1892 | 22 | #411 | 0.18 |
| 1891 | 16 | #453 | 0.16 |
| 1890 | 14 | #530 | 0.13 |
| 1889 | 17 | #459 | 0.15 |
| 1888 | 23 | #395 | 0.19 |
| 1887 | 27 | #323 | 0.27 |
| 1886 | 21 | #393 | 0.19 |
| 1885 | 18 | #434 | 0.17 |
| 1884 | 17 | #464 | 0.15 |
| 1883 | 22 | #369 | 0.21 |
| 1882 | 25 | #363 | 0.22 |
| 1881 | 26 | #322 | 0.26 |
| 1880 | 18 | #419 | 0.16 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Otho a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Otho has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 104 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Otho: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Otho, and how old are they?
An estimated 485 Americans named Otho and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (15% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 61 and 81. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 581 people named Otho (5 women and girls, 576 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 657 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Otho born?
The states with the most babies named Otho are Mississippi, Texas and Virginia, with 58% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi and Virginia are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 285 | not ranked | 5.2× |
| Texas | 196 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Virginia | 151 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| North Carolina | 121 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Arkansas | 79 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Oklahoma | 66 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| West Virginia | 36 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Kentucky | 28 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 24 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Louisiana | 18 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Otho is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Otho is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1910 it was given 5.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Otho with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 11,117 babies since 1880, Otho is the second most given (30% 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 Otho
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 Otho and names like it
- Compare Otho and OthaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sOtho peaked in 1915.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Otho since 1910.
- The top names of 1915The year the most babies were named Otho.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Otho alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with OMost given first.