girls:
116 births since 1905
#5600 (2nd percentile)
boys:
663 births since 1913
#3924 (14th percentile)
overall:
779 births since 1905
#6960 (10th percentile)
The name Othello is the #6,960 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 779 recorded births since 1905. This represents the 10.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,924 (14.4% percentile) for all time with 663 births since 1913. For girls, it ranks #5,600 (2.0% percentile) for all time with 116 births since 1905.
Othello first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1905 (1905 for girls and 1913 for boys). Birth data for Othello is available in 85 out of the 119 years between 1905 and 2023 (82 years for boys and 17 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 Othello has been given predominantly to boys, with 85.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Othello were boys. Interestingly, until around 1914, the name was more popular for girls (77.3% girls from 1905 to 1913), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (86.9% boys from 1914 to 2023).
For boys, Othello reached its peak popularity in 1923, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #540) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 19 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2013, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Othello ranks #901 for boys (1.1% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 43.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Othello reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #589) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1908, with 17 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1930.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Othello".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Othello. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 71.8% confident that Othello is pronounced as oh-THEH-loh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-THEH-loh, at 28.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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