# Ottis (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ottis/  
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 |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 4,647 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 4,473 / 174 (4% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 70, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1913 | 11 | 1,993 |
| 1914 | 6 | 3,510 |
| 1915 | 10 | 2,856 |
| 1916 | 10 | 2,985 |
| 1917 | 11 | 2,832 |
| 1918 | 10 | 3,185 |
| 1919 | 8 | 3,726 |
| 1921 | 10 | 3,350 |
| 1922 | 8 | 3,930 |
| 1924 | 10 | 3,324 |
| 1926 | 5 | 5,447 |
| 1927 | 7 | 4,179 |
| 1929 | 12 | 2,696 |
| 1931 | 6 | 4,231 |
| 1936 | 6 | 4,050 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 6 | 11,105 |
| 2008 | 5 | 14,077 |
| 2010 | 6 | 11,806 |
| 2013 | 8 | 9,431 |
| 2014 | 5 | 13,515 |
| 2016 | 10 | 8,008 |
| 2017 | 7 | 10,489 |
| 2018 | 10 | 8,006 |
| 2019 | 6 | 11,770 |
| 2020 | 9 | 8,555 |
| 2021 | 11 | 7,450 |
| 2022 | 14 | 6,390 |
| 2023 | 11 | 7,619 |
| 2024 | 14 | 6,395 |
| 2025 | 15 | 6,070 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 3 | 2,863 |
| 1997 | 3 | 2,859 |
| 2016 | 4 | 4,023 |
| 2019 | 3 | 4,702 |
| 2020 | 4 | 3,848 |
| 2021 | 7 | 2,730 |
| 2022 | 9 | 2,320 |
| 2023 | 10 | 2,160 |
| 2024 | 14 | 1,758 |
| 2025 | 13 | 1,897 |

## People named Ottis

- Ottis Toole, American serial killer (1947–1996)
- J. Ottis Adams, American artist (1851-1927)
- Ottis Anderson, American football player
- Slim Whitman, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist

## 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.