Boy
Otto
As a boy's name, Otto is understood to mean "wealth, prosperity". It settled in after its 1910s peak and has held its ground ever since. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. Few names stick around this long: it shows up across almost the entire twelve-decade span this registry covers.
GermanicGermanic "aud"
EtymologyMeaning "wealth, prosperity"
Births by decade
1900s
1,746
1910s
5,593
1920s
5,584
1930s
3,135
1940s
1,918
1950s
1,510
1960s
1,125
1970s
712
1980s
573
1990s
609
2000s
1,167
2010s
3,136
Peaked in the 1910s · 26,808 total U.S. births since 1900