Ota

Where Ota comes from

Ota hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1881
    Debut at its peak, #679
    #679 among girls with 7 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1883
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  3. 1919
    Ota Šik born
    Czech economist and politician
  4. 1930
    Ota Pavel born
    Czech writer and sport publicist
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Ota Pavel · Czech writer and sport publicist, 1930–1973
  • Ota Šik · Czech economist and politician, 1919–2004
  • Ota Filip · Czech writer, 1930–2018
  • Ota Fukárek · Czech tennis player, born 1977
  • Ota Hofman · Czech playwright, scriptwriter and writer, 1928–1989

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.