Otto
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
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.
Otto is also given to girls.
Pronounced AH-toh.
As of October 2026, Otto ranked #277 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #63 in 1880, Nameberry popularity #48.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · boys | Births · boys | US rank · girls | Births · girls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #630 | 417 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #544 | 526 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #526 | 560 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #478 | 617 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #431 | 707 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #429 | 719 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #389 | 792 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #335 | 975 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #311 | 1,082 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #282 | 1,193 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #274 | 1,239 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #277 | 1,241 | — | 0 |
World rankings
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Otto on lists
Famous Ottos
- Otto Eduard Leopold von BismarckBoy
1st Chancellor of Germany
- Otto von HabsburgBoy
last Crown Prince of Austria,Hungary
- Otto IBoy
IV, Holy Roman Emperors
- Otto Friedrich LudwigBoy
King of Greece
- Otto Wilhelm Luitpold Adalbert Waldemar von WittelsbachBoy
King of Bavaria
- Otto Heinrich FrankBoy
German,Swiss father of diarist Anne Frank
- Otto Emil PlathBoy
father of American writer Sylvia Plath
- Otto Ludwig PremingerBoy
Austrian,American film director
- Otto Everett GrahamBoy
American NFL football player
- Otto JonesBoy
younger brother of American actor Angus T. Jones
- Otto WoodBoy
American drummer of the band Waterparks
- Otto ScheffBoy
German Olympic swimmer
- Otto KlempererBoy
German,American conductor
- Otto Gerhard WaalkesBoy
German comedian and actor
- Otto WallachBoy
German chemist; winner of the Nobel Prize
- Otto Fritz MeyerhofBoy
German physician; winner of the Nobel Prize
- Otto Heinrich WarburgBoy
German biochemist; winner of the Nobel Prize
- Otto LoewiBoy
German pharmacologist; winner of the Nobel Prize
- Otto SternBoy
German physicist; winner of the Nobel Prize
- Otto HahnBoy
German chemist; winner of the Nobel Prize
- Otto VoglBoy
Austrian,American chemist
- Otto PorterBoy
American basketball player
- Otto WarmbierBoy
late American student held hostage in North Korea
- Otto KilcherBoy
American reality TV star on "Alaska: The Last Frontier"; uncle of singer Jewel
- Otto Patrick Dunstan (b. 2013)Boy
son of Australian youtubers Rohan and Chloe Dunstan (Life with Beans)
Otto in pop culture
- Otto RocketBoy
character on animated series "Rocket Power"
- Otto MaddoxBoy
main character in film "RepoMan"
- Otto MannBoy
bus driver on TV's "The Simpsons"
- Otto DelaneyBoy
character on TV's "Sons of Anarchy"
- Otto KloppBoy
character in Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan Series
- Otto Octavius aka Doctor OctopusBoy
villain in Spider,Man comics
- Otto OsworthBoy
character on the animated series Time Squad
- Otto FlickBoy
character on British TV series 'Allo 'Allo!
- Otto MeyerBoy
character in the 1963 film "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"
- OttoBoy
talking ferret in 2002 animated film "Barbie as Rapunzel"
- OttoBoy
Sarge's dog in comic strip "Beetle Bailey"
- Otto ChriekBoy
vampire photographer from the "Discoworld" series by Terry Pratchett
- Otto the GorillaBoy
character in film "The Haunted World of El Superbeasto"
- Otto the AutopilotBoy
the blow,up autopilot doll in 1980 film Airplane!
- Otto WestBoy
character in the 1988 film "A Fish Called Wanda"
- Otto MalpenseBoy
the main character in the H.I.V.E. series by Mark Walden
- Otto "Unbreakable" ZanderBoy
character in video game series X,COM Enemy Unknown[4]
- Otto the OrangeBoy
mascot of Syracuse University
- OttoBoy
character in the game "Minecraft Story Mode"
- Otto the AutoBoy
AAA's education program for elementary school aged kids