Baby name

Otis

Boy

Origin of the name

Otis was first an English surname, from Ode, a medieval form of the Germanic Odo.

Comeback name

The high point came in 1920, with 1,031 births and the No. 146 spot that year. Almost forgotten around 2002, with about 90 births a year, it has been climbing back since. Its rank in 2025: No. 652.

61,082births since 1880

1920sgeneration

No. 146rank at its peak, in 1920

Where babies named Otis are born

1920

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The darker the blue, the more common Otis is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.

Where it is most popular

Compared with the national average, Otis is most common in Mississippi (4.8 times), Alabama (3.7) and Arkansas (3.6), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.

One letter apart

Odis 8,229
Ottis 4,473
Oris 1,661

Names from the same era

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