# Otto (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/otto/  
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 | German |
| Meaning | “wealth”, “riches” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈɑtoʊ/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 40,015 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 39,915 / 100 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 4,283, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

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.).

## What it means

Otto is grouped under rich.

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1891 | 5 | 1,492 |
| 1892 | 5 | 1,613 |
| 1896 | 6 | 1,540 |
| 1914 | 7 | 3,106 |
| 1915 | 6 | 4,148 |
| 1916 | 6 | 4,287 |
| 1917 | 11 | 2,833 |
| 1918 | 5 | 5,408 |
| 1919 | 6 | 4,679 |
| 1920 | 6 | 4,843 |
| 1921 | 5 | 5,691 |
| 1923 | 8 | 3,889 |
| 1925 | 7 | 4,338 |
| 1927 | 7 | 4,180 |
| 1929 | 10 | 3,088 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 213 | 936 |
| 2012 | 288 | 789 |
| 2013 | 343 | 697 |
| 2014 | 417 | 630 |
| 2015 | 526 | 544 |
| 2016 | 560 | 526 |
| 2017 | 617 | 478 |
| 2018 | 707 | 431 |
| 2019 | 719 | 429 |
| 2020 | 792 | 389 |
| 2021 | 975 | 335 |
| 2022 | 1,082 | 311 |
| 2023 | 1,193 | 282 |
| 2024 | 1,244 | 274 |
| 2025 | 1,241 | 277 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 71 | 507 |
| 2012 | 112 | 375 |
| 2013 | 102 | 399 |
| 2014 | 141 | 321 |
| 2015 | 203 | 254 |
| 2016 | 177 | 286 |
| 2017 | 203 | 264 |
| 2018 | 219 | 236 |
| 2019 | 212 | 237 |
| 2020 | 241 | 211 |
| 2021 | 326 | 162 |
| 2022 | 334 | 158 |
| 2023 | 445 | 119 |
| 2024 | 469 | 113 |
| 2025 | 444 | 117 |

## In other languages

- Bulgarian: О́то
- Chinese: 奧托 /奥托
- Czech: Oto, Ota
- Danish: Otto
- Estonian: Otto
- Finnish: Otto
- French: Otton
- Georgian: ოტო
- German: Otto
- Greek: Όθωνας, Όθων
- Hindi: ऑटो
- Icelandic: Ottó
- Italian: Ottone
- Japanese: オットー
- Korean: 오토
- Latvian: Oto
- Norwegian: Otto
- Polish: Otto, Otton, Odo, Odon
- Portuguese: Oto, Otto
- Russian: О́тто

## People named Otto

- Otto Hahn, German chemist and physicist (1879–1968)
- Otto Stern, German-American physicist (1888–1969)
- Otto Wallach, German chemist (1847–1931)
- Otto Diels, German chemist (1876–1954)
- Otto Lilienthal, German aviation pioneer (1848-1896)
- Otto Skorzeny, Austrian Waffen-SS officer (1908–1975)
- Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German biochemist (1884-1951)
- Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist (1918–2007)
- Heinrich Otto Wieland, German Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1877-1957)
- Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher and writer (1880-1903)
- Otto Sander, German film, theater, and voice actor (1941–2013)
- Otto Wagner, Austrian architect (1841-1918)

## 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.