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Othelia vs Otho

American parents have registered 3,328 Othos since 1880, against 326 Othelias. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Othelia against Otho, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Othelia Otho

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Otho has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 1991. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1895, when Othelia had 7 and Otho had 15.

Side by side

  Othelia Otho
Total US births 3263,328
Most in one year 19109
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 40510
Median age today 8571
Peak year 19171915
Best rank 1,847th girls531st boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18951880
Girls / boys 326 / 00 / 3,328

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Othelias alive today are over 85; half the Othos are over 71. That is 14 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Othelia and Otho.