Otie
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Otie has been given to 189 babies in the U.S. since 1883. 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 1892, with 10 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 78% girls, 22% boys all-time.
Babies named Otie, 1924
1 in 476,000
Otie 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Otie over time
In 1942, Otie went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Otie?
Otie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1924, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1924
- 1 in 476,000
- 5 of 2,381,562 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 250,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1924
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 330,156 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Otie sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1924 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 330,156 children born in 1924 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Otie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Oties were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Otie was born before 1906 — so the typical Otie is around 119 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1890s
- 34.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 55.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1890s — 34.0% of all recorded uses (50).
Is Otie 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1892 (10)
- Years since peak
- 133
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.5% average annual change
Spellings of Otie
Otie is not the most common spelling — Katie is, with 28.0% against Otie's 0.02%.
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.
Otie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Otie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Otie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.