Otto
Top 1000
About Otto
Otto is cool again. Long a quintessential Old Man Name, Otto has been promoted to trending darling of adventurous baby namers.
Like most German names, Otto fell out of favor during and after the two World Wars – it had been a Top 100 name in the years preceding. Off the Top 1000 from the mid-1970s until 2011, Otto is now headed straight uphill.
Otto Frank was the father of Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl who wrote her famous diary during her family's years in hiding from the Nazis during World War II. She was killed in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945 and her father Otto typed and edited the diary himself to prepare it for publication.
Otto Hightower is a character in the Game of Thrones universe, played by Rhys Ifans in the HBO prequel House of the Dragon.
Feminine forms of Otto include Ottoline, Ottilie, Odilia and Odette, all fashionable in the UK along with Otto itself.
Pronounced AH-toh.
As of October 2026, Otto ranked #277 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #63 in 1880, Nameberry popularity #80.
Editor's take: The name Otto is a boy's name of German origin meaning "wealthy".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #630 | 417 | 217.1 |
| 2015 | #544 | 526 | 274.4 |
| 2016 | #526 | 560 | 295.1 |
| 2017 | #478 | 617 | 333.3 |
| 2018 | #431 | 707 | 389.3 |
| 2019 | #429 | 719 | 400.7 |
| 2020 | #389 | 792 | 458.8 |
| 2021 | #335 | 975 | 557.3 |
| 2022 | #311 | 1,082 | 619.7 |
| 2023 | #282 | 1,193 | 697.4 |
| 2024 | #274 | 1,239 | 719.1 |
| 2025 | #277 | 1,241 | 726.5 |
World rankings
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Otto on lists
Famous Ottos
- Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck
1st Chancellor of Germany
- Otto von Habsburg
last Crown Prince of Austria,Hungary
- Otto I
IV, Holy Roman Emperors
- Otto Friedrich Ludwig
King of Greece
- Otto Wilhelm Luitpold Adalbert Waldemar von Wittelsbach
King of Bavaria
- Otto Heinrich Frank
German,Swiss father of diarist Anne Frank
- Otto Emil Plath
father of American writer Sylvia Plath
- Otto Ludwig Preminger
Austrian,American film director
- Otto Everett Graham
American NFL football player
- Otto Jones
younger brother of American actor Angus T. Jones
- Otto Wood
American drummer of the band Waterparks
- Otto Scheff
German Olympic swimmer
- Otto Klemperer
German,American conductor
- Otto Gerhard Waalkes
German comedian and actor
- Otto Wallach
German chemist; winner of the Nobel Prize
- Otto Fritz Meyerhof
German physician; winner of the Nobel Prize
- Otto Heinrich Warburg
German biochemist; winner of the Nobel Prize
- Otto Loewi
German pharmacologist; winner of the Nobel Prize
- Otto Stern
German physicist; winner of the Nobel Prize
- Otto Hahn
German chemist; winner of the Nobel Prize
- Otto Vogl
Austrian,American chemist
- Otto Porter
American basketball player
- Otto Warmbier
late American student held hostage in North Korea
- Otto Kilcher
American reality TV star on "Alaska: The Last Frontier"; uncle of singer Jewel
- Otto Patrick Dunstan (b. 2013)
son of Australian youtubers Rohan and Chloe Dunstan (Life with Beans)
Otto in pop culture
- Otto Rocket
character on animated series "Rocket Power"
- Otto Maddox
main character in film "RepoMan"
- Otto Mann
bus driver on TV's "The Simpsons"
- Otto Delaney
character on TV's "Sons of Anarchy"
- Otto Klopp
character in Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan Series
- Otto Octavius aka Doctor Octopus
villain in Spider,Man comics
- Otto Osworth
character on the animated series Time Squad
- Otto Flick
character on British TV series 'Allo 'Allo!
- Otto Meyer
character in the 1963 film "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"
- Otto
talking ferret in 2002 animated film "Barbie as Rapunzel"
- Otto
Sarge's dog in comic strip "Beetle Bailey"
- Otto Chriek
vampire photographer from the "Discoworld" series by Terry Pratchett
- Otto the Gorilla
character in film "The Haunted World of El Superbeasto"
- Otto the Autopilot
the blow,up autopilot doll in 1980 film Airplane!
- Otto West
character in the 1988 film "A Fish Called Wanda"
- Otto Malpense
the main character in the H.I.V.E. series by Mark Walden
- Otto "Unbreakable" Zander
character in video game series X,COM Enemy Unknown[4]
- Otto the Orange
mascot of Syracuse University
- Otto
character in the game "Minecraft Story Mode"
- Otto the Auto
AAA's education program for elementary school aged kids