boys:
3.3k births since 1880
#2163 (53rd percentile)
overall:
3.3k births since 1880
#4734 (39th percentile)
The name Otho is the #4,734 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,328 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 38.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 38.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,163 (52.8% percentile) for all time with 3,328 births since 1880.
Otho has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Otho is available in 104 out of the 112 years between 1880 and 1991. 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.
For boys, Otho reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 20.7% percentile (ranked #399) with 124 births per million. The name was most common in 1902, with 271 births per million (ranked 13.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1991.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Otho".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Otho. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 84.2% confident that Otho is pronounced as OH-thoh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AH-thoh, at 15.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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