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Ott

Boys' name

Riches, through Otto

Ott has been given to 84 babies in the U.S. since 1882. 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 1920, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Ott, 1943

1 in 564,000

Ott over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ott: meaning, origin, and history

Riches, through Otto

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ott means

Ott belongs to the name family reached through Ott → Otto → Otto. Its meaning is “riches”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ott is used in Estonian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Otto and Ohto.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 84 boys were recorded with the name Ott between 1882 and 1943. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1920; its best national rank was #918 in 1882.

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 Ott?

Ott had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1943, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1943
1 in 564,000
5 of 2,822,499 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1943
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,283 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ott 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 1943 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 391,283 children born in 1943 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ott. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Otts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ott was born before 1917 — so the typical Ott is around 108 today.

Median birth year
1917
About 108 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
33.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 33.3% of all recorded uses (28).

Is Ott 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 1920 (10)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#918
1882

Where Ott is used

Across 1910–2025, Ott was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 318,575 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1West Virginia1 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. Ott has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ott 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
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Best rank ever
#918
1882
Peak year
1920
10 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
1943
All-time count
84
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ott

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

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Sibling names for Ott

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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