Otha
Otha is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 435th, in 1896.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1920140 births
- Best rank
- #435in 1896
- Since 1880
- 7,789people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,386 boys have been named Otha in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 140 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 140 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1937, and the 1920s alone account for 18%. It has spent 79 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Otha is used for both sexes: 18% of its bearers are girls (1,403), most of them born around 1922.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Otha | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 73 | |
| 1890s | 146 | |
| 1900s | 222 | |
| 1910s | 839 | |
| 1920s | 1,172 | |
| 1930s | 946 | |
| 1940s | 961 | |
| 1950s | 852 | |
| 1960s | 493 | |
| 1970s | 298 | |
| 1980s | 192 | |
| 1990s | 116 | |
| 2000s | 59 | |
| 2010s | 17 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Otha was the 518th 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 Otha
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Garnettpeak 1920
- Arliepeak 1921
- Earnestpeak 1926
- Floydpeak 1926
- Lesterpeak 1918
- Williepeak 1947
- Ottispeak 1920
- Otispeak 1920
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.