Ottis
Ottis is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 14 births. Its best rank was 466th, in 1903.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 140.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1920130 births
- Best rank
- #466in 1903
- Since 1880
- 4,632people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,458 boys have been named Ottis in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 130 births.
The name has all but left use: 14 births in 2024, against 130 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1931, and the 1920s alone account for 24%. It has spent 63 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 174 girls have also been given it, 3.8% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Ottis | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 55 | |
| 1890s | 102 | |
| 1900s | 151 | |
| 1910s | 719 | |
| 1920s | 1,080 | |
| 1930s | 739 | |
| 1940s | 561 | |
| 1950s | 367 | |
| 1960s | 221 | |
| 1970s | 168 | |
| 1980s | 95 | |
| 1990s | 58 | |
| 2000s | 31 | |
| 2010s | 52 | |
| 2020s | 59 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Ottis was the 536th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1920 were John, William, Robert, James and Charles. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Ottis
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Virgilpeak 1921
- Clairpeak 1923
- Hubertpeak 1924
- Loydpeak 1926
- Herschelpeak 1921
- Arliepeak 1921
- Basilpeak 1924
- Lesterpeak 1918
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.