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Othmar

Boys' name

Treasure + famous

Othmar has been given to 188 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 1916, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Othmar, 1932

1 in 211,000

Othmar over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Othmar: meaning, origin, and history

Treasure + famous

Old High German

What Othmar means

Othmar means “treasure + famous”, associated with audaz and mērijaz.

Origin, language, and formation

Othmar is used in German. Its origins include Old High German.

Othmar comes through Old High German Audomar, Proto-West Germanic *Audamār and Proto-Germanic *audaz.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Omer.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 188 boys were recorded with the name Othmar between 1912 and 1932. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1916; its best national rank was #1,681 in 1916.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Othmar?

Othmar had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1932, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1932
1 in 211,000
10 of 2,111,250 births
Among boys only
1 in 104,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1932
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
146,342 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Othmar sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1932 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 146,342 children born in 1932 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Othmar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Othmars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Othmar was born before 1920 — so the typical Othmar is around 105 today.

Median birth year
1920
About 105 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
48.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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1920s — 48.4% of all recorded uses (91).

Is Othmar 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 1916 (19)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,681
1916

Spellings of Othmar

Othmar is not the most common spelling — Omar is, with 90.2% against Othmar's 0.16%.

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.

Where Othmar is used

Across 1910–2025, Othmar was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 407,704 across all states with data. It was least common in Minnesota (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Indiana1 in —
  2. 2Minnesota1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Othmar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Othmar around the world

Where Othmar ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1930–1930
    #1,068
    in 1930
  • South Australia
    1956–1956
    #408
    in 1956

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Othmar by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,681
1916
Peak year
1916
19 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
1932
All-time count
188
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Othmar

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

OthmanLeomarOthellGiomarYosmarItamarXiomarOtherCamarOthelloRomarOthalEdmarOthnielQamarAimarJaymarWilmarJosmarIsmarHilmarYomarOtharChamar

Sibling names for Othmar

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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