Ottie
Ottie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 5 births. Its best rank was 584th, in 1891.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 50.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 191753 births
- Best rank
- #584in 1891
- Since 1880
- 1,884people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,275 girls have been named Ottie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 53 births.
The name has all but left use: 5 births in 2024, against 53 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1915, and the 1910s alone account for 23%. It has spent 33 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Ottie is used for both sexes: 32% of its bearers are boys (609), most of them born around 1921.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1917, its biggest year
Ottie was the 962nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1917 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Ottie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Oniepeak 1918
- Ludiepeak 1916
- Pearlpeak 1918
- Zulapeak 1922
- Gertiepeak 1918
- Electapeak 1918
- Hilmapeak 1915
- Blanchpeak 1924
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.