Otis
Otis is ranked 730th among boys in 2024 (358 births). Its best rank was 94th, in 1899.
- Rank in 2024
- #730down 76 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3580.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 19201,031 births
- Best rank
- #94in 1899
- Since 1880
- 60,653people given the name
The story in the numbers
60,653 boys have been named Otis in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 1,031 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1943, and the 1920s alone account for 15%. It has spent 125 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 3 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Otis | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,006 | |
| 1890s | 1,349 | |
| 1900s | 1,966 | |
| 1910s | 6,963 | |
| 1920s | 9,352 | |
| 1930s | 7,456 | |
| 1940s | 7,654 | |
| 1950s | 7,285 | |
| 1960s | 4,955 | |
| 1970s | 3,552 | |
| 1980s | 2,237 | |
| 1990s | 1,367 | |
| 2000s | 1,028 | |
| 2010s | 2,412 | |
| 2020s | 2,071 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Otis was the 146th 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 Otis
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Sylvesterpeak 1920
- Haywoodpeak 1919
- Earnestpeak 1926
- Obiepeak 1924
- Freemanpeak 1918
- Clydepeak 1920
- Ennispeak 1922
- Oranpeak 1922
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.