Ottie
Ottie was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 1,884 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ottie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ottie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ottie is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ottie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,068, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
63 babies in 1917, the peak
Ottie peaked in 1917, when 63 babies were given it (53 girls, #962 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #17,068 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,732 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 6 | #5,283 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 5 | #4,581 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 6 | #3,825 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 9 | #2,928 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 6 | #3,913 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 6 | #3,947 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 7 | #3,567 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 5 | #4,399 |
Every recorded year (86)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | under 5 | 5 | #4,322 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 5 | #4,244 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 10 | #2,687 | |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,490 | 9 | #2,853 |
| 1951 | under 5 | 12 | #2,338 | |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,370 | 12 | #2,291 |
| 1949 | under 5 | 12 | #2,305 | |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,120 | 5 | #4,051 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,144 | 8 | #3,034 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,306 | under 5 | |
| 1945 | 10 | #3,072 | 10 | #2,351 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,734 | 13 | #2,059 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,813 | 10 | #2,516 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,632 | under 5 | |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,310 | 5 | #3,876 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,151 | 8 | #2,814 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,348 | 10 | #2,404 |
| 1938 | under 5 | 5 | #3,905 | |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,694 | 13 | #2,065 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,655 | 8 | #2,794 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,693 | 13 | #2,102 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,400 | 8 | #2,899 |
| 1933 | 22 | #1,646 | 14 | #1,977 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,340 | 8 | #3,034 |
| 1931 | 15 | #2,185 | 13 | #2,179 |
| 1930 | 19 | #1,917 | 13 | #2,269 |
| 1929 | 18 | #2,002 | 8 | #3,178 |
| 1928 | 23 | #1,767 | 14 | #2,236 |
| 1927 | 20 | #2,004 | 14 | #2,269 |
| 1926 | 29 | #1,531 | 7 | #3,623 |
| 1925 | 31 | #1,495 | 10 | #2,886 |
| 1924 | 21 | #1,980 | 17 | #2,031 |
| 1923 | 27 | #1,629 | 14 | #2,301 |
| 1922 | 29 | #1,563 | 23 | #1,627 |
| 1921 | 35 | #1,365 | 23 | #1,630 |
| 1920 | 18 | #2,150 | 15 | #2,198 |
| 1919 | 34 | #1,344 | 13 | #2,352 |
| 1918 | 31 | #1,403 | 11 | #2,660 |
| 1917 | 53 | #962 | 10 | #2,681 |
| 1916 | 30 | #1,353 | 16 | #1,920 |
| 1915 | 32 | #1,250 | 20 | #1,590 |
| 1914 | 21 | #1,427 | 10 | #2,229 |
| 1913 | 17 | #1,453 | 9 | #2,052 |
| 1912 | 19 | #1,243 | 7 | #2,213 |
| 1911 | 30 | #797 | 6 | #1,687 |
| 1910 | 24 | #895 | under 5 | |
| 1909 | 21 | #901 | 5 | #1,630 |
| 1908 | 20 | #906 | 5 | #1,538 |
| 1907 | 33 | #665 | under 5 | |
| 1906 | 18 | #890 | under 5 | |
| 1905 | 26 | #706 | under 5 | |
| 1904 | 16 | #929 | under 5 | |
| 1903 | 16 | #891 | 5 | #1,260 |
| 1902 | 16 | #899 | under 5 | |
| 1901 | 20 | #740 | under 5 | |
| 1900 | 19 | #878 | 5 | #1,448 |
| 1899 | 20 | #723 | under 5 | |
| 1898 | 21 | #740 | 6 | #1,092 |
| 1897 | 15 | #861 | 6 | #1,029 |
| 1896 | 19 | #746 | 8 | #877 |
| 1895 | 18 | #762 | 6 | #1,049 |
| 1894 | 18 | #715 | under 5 | |
| 1893 | 18 | #707 | under 5 | |
| 1892 | 19 | #678 | 5 | #1,207 |
| 1891 | 21 | #584 | 6 | #931 |
| 1890 | 19 | #613 | 5 | #1,116 |
| 1889 | 13 | #748 | under 5 | |
| 1888 | 18 | #606 | under 5 | |
| 1887 | 14 | #625 | 6 | #893 |
| 1886 | 11 | #724 | under 5 | |
| 1885 | 11 | #685 | 5 | #1,061 |
| 1884 | 8 | #837 | 5 | #1,082 |
| 1883 | 9 | #680 | under 5 | |
| 1882 | 9 | #664 | 5 | #1,057 |
| 1881 | 5 | #915 | under 5 | |
| 1880 | 5 | #914 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Ottie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,884 Americans recorded as Ottie, 68% are girls and 32% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ottie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ottie, and how old are they?
An estimated 215 Americans named Ottie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (11% of everyone recorded); the median is 78 years old and half are between 70 and 84. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 362 people named Ottie (157 women and girls, 205 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 304 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,073 babies since 1880, Ottie is the most given (91% 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 Ottie
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 Ottie and names like it
- Compare Ottie and OtieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sOttie peaked in 1917.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ottie since 1910.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Ottie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Ottie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with OMost given first.