Ott
Ott was last recorded in 1943, when 5 babies were given it; 84 Americans have been recorded with it between 1882 and 1943 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ott by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ott?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #3,918, in 1943; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 1920, the peak
Ott peaked in 1920, when 10 boys were given it, #2,912 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | 5 | #3,918 | 3.5 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,389 | 7.3 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,794 | 4.6 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,809 | 4.5 |
| 1920 | 10 | #2,912 | 9.4 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,645 | 4.9 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,869 | 6.5 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,426 | 7.9 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,722 | 7.1 |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,447 | 33.2 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1892 | 5 | #1,206 | 41.0 |
| 1891 | 6 | #930 | 59.3 |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,028 | 49.3 |
| 1882 | 6 | #918 | 52.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ott a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ott has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 14 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ott: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ott, and how old are they?
An estimated 2 Americans named Ott 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.
The 2020 Census counted 108 people named Ott (16 women and girls, 92 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3 born in the U.S. The Census count is 36.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Ott rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ott
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 Ott and names like it
- Compare Ott and LemBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sOtt peaked in 1920.
- West Virginia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ott since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Ott.
- Names starting with OMost given first.