Otto

Boy name

Otto has been given to 40,015 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It peaked in 2024 and currently ranks #277 for boys (2025).

Meaning & origin /ˈɑtoʊ/

Borrowed from German Otto, from Old High German, short form of compound names (such as Otachar, Ottokar) beginning with Proto-West Germanic *aud, from Proto-Germanic *audaz (“wealth, riches”) (cognate of English Ed- in Edgar, Edmund, Edward, Edith, etc.).

Origin: Germanic languages

Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Popularity over time births per year, 1880–2025

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Total babies

40,015

Peak year

2024 (1,244 babies)

Rank in 2025

#277 for boys

First recorded

1880

10-year trend

▲ +136%

Gender split

0% girls / 100% boys

Famous people named Otto

Otto von Bismarck

German statesman and Chancellor (1815-1898)

Otto Hahn

German chemist and physicist (1879-1968)

Adolf Eichmann

German-Austrian SS officer and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust (1906–1962)

Otto I the Great

Holy Roman Emperor from 962 to 973

Notability data from Wikidata (CC0).

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