Meaning not yet researched.
Ottis: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #466 in 1903.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #466 in 1903; #6,070 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ottis in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,070 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1903, at #466.
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Ottis: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 boys in 2025. Peak: #466 in 1903 · most boys in one year: 130 (1920).
In 2025, 15 US boys were named Ottis, making it the 6,070th most common boys’ name of the year, up 325 places from #6,395 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 14 boys named Ottis in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #466, reached in 1903. The most boys given the name in a single year was 130, in 1920. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #1,177 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ottis in 131 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 6 babies. In all, 4,647 US babies have been given the name, 3.7% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,132 babies named Ottis.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 107 US boys were named Ottis; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 15. In 2025 that was about 1 in 113,872 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Otis (61,969 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ottis in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 15 | #6,070 |
| 2024 | — | — | 14 | #6,395 |
| 2023 | — | — | 11 | #7,619 |
| 2022 | — | — | 14 | #6,390 |
| 2021 | — | — | 11 | #7,450 |
| 2020 | — | — | 9 | #8,555 |
| 2019 | — | — | 6 | #11,770 |
| 2018 | — | — | 10 | #8,006 |
| 2017 | — | — | 7 | #10,489 |
| 2016 | — | — | 10 | #8,008 |
| 2014 | — | — | 5 | #13,515 |
| 2013 | — | — | 8 | #9,431 |
| 2010 | — | — | 6 | #11,806 |
| 2008 | — | — | 5 | #14,077 |
| 2005 | — | — | 6 | #11,105 |
| 2004 | — | — | 8 | #8,716 |
| 2003 | — | — | 5 | #12,250 |
| 2002 | — | — | 7 | #9,136 |
| 1999 | — | — | 5 | #11,148 |
| 1998 | — | — | 7 | #8,216 |
| 1997 | — | — | 5 | #10,384 |
| 1995 | — | — | 6 | #8,590 |
| 1994 | — | — | 5 | #9,856 |
| 1992 | — | — | 9 | #6,014 |
| 1991 | — | — | 15 | #3,962 |
| 1990 | — | — | 6 | #7,844 |
| 1988 | — | — | 9 | #5,102 |
| 1987 | — | — | 13 | #3,673 |
| 1986 | — | — | 7 | #5,761 |
| 1985 | — | — | 5 | #7,307 |
| 1984 | — | — | 12 | #3,619 |
| 1983 | — | — | 8 | #4,796 |
| 1982 | — | — | 14 | #3,240 |
| 1981 | — | — | 13 | #3,363 |
| 1980 | — | — | 14 | #3,207 |
| 1979 | — | — | 9 | #4,311 |
| 1978 | — | — | 15 | #2,889 |
| 1977 | — | — | 18 | #2,535 |
| 1976 | — | — | 18 | #2,481 |
| 1975 | — | — | 16 | #2,610 |
| 1974 | — | — | 11 | #3,267 |
| 1973 | — | — | 17 | #2,381 |
| 1972 | — | — | 17 | #2,306 |
| 1971 | — | — | 32 | #1,550 |
| 1970 | — | — | 15 | #2,474 |
| 1969 | — | — | 21 | #1,847 |
| 1968 | — | — | 19 | #1,882 |
| 1967 | — | — | 21 | #1,742 |
| 1966 | — | — | 25 | #1,569 |
| 1965 | — | — | 27 | #1,506 |
| 1964 | — | — | 16 | #2,090 |
| 1963 | — | — | 23 | #1,686 |
| 1962 | — | — | 25 | #1,613 |
| 1961 | — | — | 28 | #1,544 |
| 1960 | — | — | 16 | #2,099 |
| 1959 | — | — | 42 | #1,208 |
| 1958 | — | — | 35 | #1,316 |
| 1957 | — | — | 33 | #1,382 |
| 1956 | — | — | 34 | #1,330 |
| 1955 | — | — | 33 | #1,333 |
| 1954 | — | — | 41 | #1,181 |
| 1953 | — | — | 33 | #1,324 |
| 1952 | — | — | 27 | #1,482 |
| 1951 | — | — | 51 | #989 |
| 1950 | — | — | 38 | #1,177 |
| 1949 | — | — | 53 | #953 |
| 1948 | — | — | 47 | #1,030 |
| 1947 | — | — | 42 | #1,133 |
| 1946 | — | — | 49 | #961 |
| 1945 | — | — | 55 | #848 |
| 1944 | — | — | 58 | #828 |
| 1943 | — | — | 69 | #795 |
| 1942 | — | — | 66 | #792 |
| 1941 | — | — | 65 | #776 |
| 1940 | — | — | 57 | #835 |
| 1939 | — | — | 46 | #927 |
| 1938 | — | — | 79 | #682 |
| 1937 | — | — | 68 | #740 |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,050 | 72 | #709 |
| 1935 | — | — | 86 | #636 |
| 1934 | — | — | 65 | #768 |
| 1933 | — | — | 70 | #730 |
| 1932 | — | — | 80 | #687 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,231 | 93 | #618 |
| 1930 | — | — | 80 | #698 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,696 | 104 | #597 |
| 1928 | — | — | 100 | #610 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,179 | 104 | #614 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,447 | 93 | #657 |
| 1925 | — | — | 109 | #607 |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,324 | 94 | #670 |
| 1923 | — | — | 107 | #615 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,930 | 124 | #573 |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,350 | 115 | #595 |
| 1920 | — | — | 130 | #536 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,726 | 112 | #566 |
| 1918 | 10 | #3,185 | 104 | #602 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,832 | 106 | #576 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,985 | 102 | #569 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,856 | 96 | #582 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,510 | 62 | #643 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,993 | 53 | #608 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,325 | 46 | #605 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,402 | 18 | #786 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,699 | 20 | #670 |
| 1909 | — | — | 21 | #585 |
| 1908 | — | — | 20 | #576 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,777 | 14 | #728 |
| 1906 | — | — | 12 | #743 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,163 | 17 | #585 |
| 1904 | — | — | 17 | #556 |
| 1903 | — | — | 21 | #466 |
| 1902 | — | — | 16 | #549 |
| 1901 | — | — | 5 | #1,170 |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,157 | 8 | #1,028 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,547 | 17 | #473 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,901 | 8 | #868 |
| 1897 | — | — | 9 | #772 |
| 1896 | — | — | 12 | #665 |
| 1895 | — | — | 11 | #666 |
| 1894 | — | — | 11 | #661 |
| 1893 | — | — | 14 | #529 |
| 1892 | — | — | 10 | #738 |
| 1890 | — | — | 10 | #658 |
| 1888 | — | — | 7 | #896 |
| 1887 | — | — | 11 | #575 |
| 1885 | — | — | 6 | #913 |
| 1884 | — | — | 9 | #693 |
| 1883 | — | — | 7 | #782 |
| 1881 | — | — | 9 | #638 |
| 1880 | — | — | 6 | #886 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).