girls:
174 births since 1898
#5542 (3rd percentile)
boys:
4.4k births since 1880
#1817 (60th percentile)
overall:
4.6k births since 1880
#4016 (48th percentile)
The name Ottis is the #4,016 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,618 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 48.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 48.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,817 (60.4% percentile) for all time with 4,444 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,542 (3.0% percentile) for all time with 174 births since 1898.
Ottis has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1898 for girls). Birth data for Ottis is available in 129 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (129 years for boys and 23 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 Ottis has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Ottis reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 22.8% percentile (ranked #413) with 118 births per million. The name was most common in 1903, with 162 births per million (ranked 7.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2013, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Ottis ranks #905 for boys (0.7% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 3.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Ottis reached its peak popularity in 1913, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #474) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 1899, with 24 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1936.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ottis".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Ottis. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Ottis is pronounced as AH-tihs, which has 2 syllables.
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