Otis

What Otis means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Otis yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #71 vs #652 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Otis?

US: Rising: up from #844 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #258 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1899, when 185 boys got the name (#94 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 4,048 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 375 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 893 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in CO (0.71 per 1,000 boys), MA (0.7 per 1,000 boys), WI (0.64 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Otis is #652 in the US and #71 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Otis were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Ottis15 US · 13 E&W
• Odis15 US
• Edis5 US · 3 E&W
• Ates0 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Otis

Boys

• Roland#607“fame-land”^*
• Warren#240“river, water”^*
• Bo#449Swedish, from Old Norse Búi, meaning “dweller, long-time resident”^*
• Conrad#417“bold, brave + counsel”^*
• Archie#301“anti-aircraft artillery”^*
• Lewis#433Same root as Louis, meaning “loud; famous + battle”^*

For a sister

• Louisa#694Form of Louis, meaning “loud; famous + battle”^*
• Amalia#566“vigor, bravery”^*
• Alice#65“noble + character”^*
• Zelda#832Editor’s note Down from #648 in 2015 to #832 in 2025 in the US
• Ada#219“noble”^*
• Astrid#376Danish, from Old Norse Ástríðr, meaning “god + beautiful, originally…^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Germanic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Otis’s. Rank is US 2025.