girls:
154 births since 1913
#5562 (3rd percentile)
boys:
732 births since 1906
#3855 (16th percentile)
overall:
886 births since 1906
#6853 (11th percentile)
The name Othel is the #6,853 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 886 recorded births since 1906. This represents the 11.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,855 (15.9% percentile) for all time with 732 births since 1906. For girls, it ranks #5,562 (2.7% percentile) for all time with 154 births since 1913.
Othel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1906 (1906 for boys and 1913 for girls). Birth data for Othel is available in 52 out of the 63 years between 1906 and 1968 (51 years for boys and 21 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Othel has been given predominantly to boys, with 82.6% of all recorded births being male. In 1968, 100.0% of babies named Othel were boys.
For boys, Othel reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 6.2% percentile (ranked #516) with 34 births per million. The name was most common in 1909, with 62 births per million (ranked 2.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1968.
For girls, Othel reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 2.3% percentile (ranked #560) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 1916, with 17 births per million (ranked 2.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1940.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Othel".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Othel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 31.6% confident that Othel is pronounced as oh-THEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is OH-thuhl, at 21.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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