Otho

Where Otho comes from

Otho 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. 1201
    Otho of Saint Omer born
    Lord of one half of Thebes
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #403 among boys — 18 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1881
    Peak, #318
    26 babies named Otho — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1892
    Otho Lovering born
    American film editor
  5. 1954
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,207.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Otho of Saint Omer · Lord of one half of Thebes, 1201–1290
  • Otho Lovering · American film editor, 1892–1968
  • Otho Holand · English soldier and Knight of the Garter, 1316–1359
  • Otho Orlando Kurz · German architect, 1881–1933
  • Otho R. Singleton · American politician, 1814–1889

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.