# Otha (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/otha/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 7,789 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 6,386 / 1,403 (18% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 13 | 3,154 |
| 1953 | 15 | 2,901 |
| 1954 | 13 | 3,281 |
| 1955 | 13 | 3,336 |
| 1956 | 5 | 6,646 |
| 1957 | 10 | 4,122 |
| 1958 | 10 | 4,123 |
| 1959 | 7 | 5,415 |
| 1960 | 10 | 4,383 |
| 1962 | 5 | 7,289 |
| 1963 | 7 | 5,731 |
| 1965 | 5 | 7,238 |
| 1966 | 5 | 7,314 |
| 1969 | 5 | 8,319 |
| 1971 | 9 | 5,866 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 13 | 4,811 |
| 1997 | 12 | 5,187 |
| 1998 | 7 | 8,214 |
| 1999 | 5 | 11,144 |
| 2000 | 7 | 8,879 |
| 2001 | 10 | 6,796 |
| 2002 | 8 | 8,241 |
| 2003 | 9 | 7,675 |
| 2004 | 8 | 8,714 |
| 2005 | 6 | 11,104 |
| 2006 | 5 | 13,489 |
| 2008 | 6 | 12,177 |
| 2012 | 5 | 13,690 |
| 2014 | 5 | 13,514 |
| 2018 | 7 | 10,454 |

## People named Otha

- Bo Diddley, American guitarist (1928–2008)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.