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Ottie

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Literal meaning not recorded

Ottie has been given to 1,884 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1917, with 53 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 68% girls, 32% boys all-time.

Babies named Ottie, 2024

1 in 669,000

Ottie over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Ottie over time

In 2024, Ottie went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

18802024

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.

Ottie: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ottie means

Ottie is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Ottie is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,275 girls were recorded with the name Ottie between 1880 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 53 in 1917; its best national rank was #584 in 1891.

In the United States, 609 boys were recorded with the name Ottie between 1882 and 1975. Its highest annual count was 23 in 1921; its best national rank was #877 in 1896.

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 Ottie?

Ottie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ottie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ottie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Otties were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ottie was born before 1915 — so the typical Ottie is around 110 today.

Median birth year
1915
About 110 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
22.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.86%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
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1910s — 22.8% of all recorded uses (291).

Is Ottie 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 1917 (53)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#584
1891

Spellings of Ottie

Ottie is not the most common spelling — Katie is, with 32.0% against Ottie's 0.17%.

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 Ottie is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Ottie was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 300,161 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 100,000
  2. 2Louisiana1 in —
  3. 3North Carolina1 in —
  4. 4South Carolina1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —
  6. 6West Virginia1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Ottie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Ottie is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Ottie was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 689,731 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in —
  2. 2Virginia1 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. Ottie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ottie around the world

Where Ottie 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.

  • England & Wales
    2018–2025
    #1,454
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Ottie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#584
1891
Peak year
1917
53 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
1,275
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#877
1896
Peak year
1921
23 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
1975
All-time count
609
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ottie

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

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Sibling names for Ottie

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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