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How popular is “Otto” in the USA?

Number of people named “Otto” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Otto” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Otto” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Otto” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Otto” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Otto” by birth year

This chart shows how “Otto” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 271 0.00134502 271 -100%
1881 221 0.001146932 221 -100%
1882 252 0.001137528 252 -100%
1883 240 0.001106266 240 -100%
1884 288 0.001182941 288 -100%
1885 263 0.001091948 263 -100%
1886 270 0.001057513 270 -100%
1887 253 0.001022668 253 -100%
1888 312 0.001041827 312 -100%
1889 309 0.001069404 309 -100%
1890 267 0.000885863 267 -100%
1891 279 0.000973234 5 274 -96%
1892 280 0.000837386 5 275 -96%
1893 257 0.000790227 257 -100%
1894 270 0.000797189 270 -100%
1895 283 0.000806222 283 -100%
1896 256 0.000716116 6 250 -95%
1897 234 0.000674435 234 -100%
1898 259 0.000678979 259 -100%
1899 174 0.00051292 174 -100%
1900 199 0.000441969 199 -100%
1901 156 0.000451112 156 -100%
1902 192 0.000496467 192 -100%
1903 166 0.000435467 166 -100%
1904 161 0.000399023 161 -100%
1905 172 0.000405735 172 -100%
1906 173 0.00040378 173 -100%
1907 170 0.000365285 170 -100%
1908 177 0.000362223 177 -100%
1909 180 0.000352096 180 -100%
1910 200 0.000338575 200 -100%
1911 228 0.000353885 228 -100%
1912 398 0.000402809 398 -100%
1913 509 0.000447626 509 -100%
1914 605 0.000427156 7 598 -98%
1915 779 0.000425119 6 773 -98%
1916 725 0.00037479 6 719 -98%
1917 814 0.000405631 11 803 -97%
1918 733 0.000337615 5 728 -99%
1919 602 0.000285275 6 596 -98%
1920 640 0.000282855 6 634 -98%
1921 645 0.00027629 5 640 -98%
1922 628 0.000274337 628 -100%
1923 581 0.000252336 8 573 -97%
1924 606 0.00025445 606 -100%
1925 547 0.000234432 7 540 -97%
1926 488 0.000212552 488 -100%
1927 513 0.000221182 7 506 -97%
1928 469 0.000207436 469 -100%
1929 468 0.000213488 10 458 -96%
1930 438 0.000197006 438 -100%
1931 365 0.000173447 365 -100%
1932 356 0.000168617 356 -100%
1933 322 0.000161045 322 -100%
1934 318 0.000153119 318 -100%
1935 289 0.000138284 289 -100%
1936 277 0.000133328 277 -100%
1937 274 0.000128598 274 -100%
1938 271 0.000122482 271 -100%
1939 225 0.000102113 225 -100%
1940 227 0.000098581 227 -100%
1941 215 0.000088244 215 -100%
1942 229 0.000083827 229 -100%
1943 195 0.000069086 195 -100%
1944 174 0.000064682 174 -100%
1945 175 0.000065965 175 -100%
1946 181 0.000056646 181 -100%
1947 177 0.000049135 177 -100%
1948 173 0.000050108 173 -100%
1949 172 0.000049358 172 -100%
1950 150 0.000042816 150 -100%
1951 147 0.000039905 147 -100%
1952 150 0.000039494 150 -100%
1953 169 0.000043855 169 -100%
1954 151 0.000037933 151 -100%
1955 137 0.000034121 137 -100%
1956 161 0.000039049 161 -100%
1957 152 0.000036172 152 -100%
1958 147 0.00003556 147 -100%
1959 149 0.000035835 149 -100%
1960 141 0.000033945 141 -100%
1961 140 0.000033798 140 -100%
1962 122 0.000030233 122 -100%
1963 126 0.000031833 126 -100%
1964 120 0.000030867 120 -100%
1965 88 0.000024273 88 -100%
1966 111 0.000031936 111 -100%
1967 110 0.000032402 110 -100%
1968 86 0.000025456 86 -100%
1969 81 0.000023307 81 -100%
1970 92 0.000025509 92 -100%
1971 94 0.000027386 94 -100%
1972 85 0.000027044 85 -100%
1973 54 0.000017899 54 -100%
1974 72 0.000023684 72 -100%
1975 65 0.000021527 65 -100%
1976 63 0.000020763 63 -100%
1977 61 0.000019204 61 -100%
1978 60 0.000018904 60 -100%
1979 66 0.000019838 66 -100%
1980 53 0.000015387 53 -100%
1981 57 0.000016477 57 -100%
1982 61 0.000017389 61 -100%
1983 56 0.000016169 56 -100%
1984 45 0.000012899 45 -100%
1985 62 0.000017371 62 -100%
1986 60 0.000016868 60 -100%
1987 53 0.000014699 53 -100%
1988 67 0.000018132 67 -100%
1989 61 0.000015867 61 -100%
1990 73 0.000018469 73 -100%
1991 51 0.000013093 51 -100%
1992 52 0.000013537 52 -100%
1993 63 0.00001671 63 -100%
1994 62 0.000016677 62 -100%
1995 50 0.000013653 50 -100%
1996 70 0.000019193 70 -100%
1997 51 0.000014066 51 -100%
1998 73 0.000019847 73 -100%
1999 65 0.000017597 65 -100%
2000 61 0.000016138 61 -100%
2001 90 0.000024042 90 -100%
2002 91 0.000024343 91 -100%
2003 97 0.000025511 97 -100%
2004 115 0.000030097 115 -100%
2005 127 0.000033031 127 -100%
2006 134 0.000033871 134 -100%
2007 145 0.000036271 145 -100%
2008 136 0.0000346 136 -100%
2009 172 0.000045024 172 -100%
2010 180 0.000048705 180 -100%
2011 213 0.000058232 213 -100%
2012 288 0.000078745 288 -100%
2013 343 0.000094084 343 -100%
2014 417 0.000112509 417 -100%
2015 526 0.000142127 526 -100%
2016 560 0.000152643 560 -100%
2017 617 0.00017253 617 -100%
2018 707 0.000201087 707 -100%
2019 719 0.000207149 719 -100%
2020 792 0.000237085 792 -100%
2021 975 0.000287785 975 -100%
2022 1082 0.000319822 1082 -100%
2023 1193 0.000360293 1193 -100%
2024 1239 0.00037224 1239 -100%

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