Óttó
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Óttó is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From German Otto, from Old High German, short form of compound names beginning with Proto-West Germanic *aud, from Proto-Germanic *audaz (“wealth, riches”) (cognate of English Ed- in Edgar, Edmund, Ed.
- FIFinland1 in 380(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 627
- DEGermany≈1 in 780
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Óttó itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 437 (measured from records)
- 1 in 380 (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Otto in US United States, DE Germany, FI Finland and 2 more and Ottó in HU Hungary.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- GermanOtto(measured from records)
- Old HighGerman(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*audaz“wealth“wealth, riches”(measured from records)
From German Otto, from Old High German, short form of compound names beginning with Proto-West Germanic *aud, from Proto-Germanic *audaz (“wealth, riches”) (cognate of English Ed- in Edgar, Edmund, Edward, Edith, etc.).
Cited for this meaning 9
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Óttó counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #180 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 777 | — | Otto | 227 |
| SE Sweden | #363 | 16,266 | 1 in 627 | 16K | Otto | 91 |
| US United States | — | 14,718 | 1 in 23K | 23K | Otto | 437 |
| FI Finland | #517 | 14,668 | 1 in 380 | 30K | Otto | 45 |
| BR Brazil | — | 8,344 | 1 in 25K | 8.3K | — | 5 |
| HU Hungary | #457 | 7,328 | 1 in 1.3K | 7.3K | Ottó | 60 |
| DK Denmark | #243 | 5,167 | 1 in 1.1K | 5.2K | Otto | 120 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Óttó mean, and where does it come from?
- From German Otto, from Old High German, short form of compound names beginning with Proto-West Germanic *aud, from Proto-Germanic *audaz (“wealth, riches”) (cognate of English Ed- in Edgar, Edmund, Ed… Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 7 other sources.
- Is Óttó a male or female name?
- Óttó is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Óttó have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 107 thousand people named Óttó in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled otto.
- Where is Óttó most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Óttó is densest in Finland — about 1 in 380 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Óttó?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 16,266 people named Óttó, about 1 in 627 residents.
- How common is Óttó compared with other names?
- In Germany, Óttó is the 180th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%B3tt%C3%B3The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Óttó” — the 180th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.