Othal
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Othal has been given to 179 babies in the U.S. since 1912. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1919, with 15 recorded.
Babies named Othal, 1944
1 in 538,000
Othal over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Othal?
Othal had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1944, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1944
- 1 in 538,000
- 5 of 2,689,998 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 273,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1944
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 372,914 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Othal sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1944 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 372,914 children born in 1944 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Othal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Othals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Othal was born before 1922 — so the typical Othal is around 103 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 36.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 63.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 36.8% of all recorded uses (64).
Is Othal rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1919 (15)
- Years since peak
- 106
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 42.5% average annual change
Spellings of Othal
Othal is not the most common spelling — Ethan is, with 89.2% against Othal's 0.03%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Othal by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Othal
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Othal
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.