Ot
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Initialism of overtime
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ot is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 210K(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 468K
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 692K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 62 (measured from records)
- 1 in 210K (inferred from the name graph)
≈150 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled O-T in US United States.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Initialism of overtime.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ot 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | 114 | O-T | 26 |
| FR France | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 737K | — | Ot | 62 |
| CO Colombia | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 769K | — | Ot | 8 |
| ES Spain | 62 | 1 in 807K | 831 | Ot | 37 |
| CL Chile | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 468K | — | Ot | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 692K | 251 | — | 5 |
| SI Slovenia | 10 | 1 in 210K | 10 | — | — |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ot is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In otk, vegetation; fresh grass; curative herbs; remedy; fodder; hay; grass; medicine; poison
as a wordClauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
In cdo, a entirely good. 3 WE _ a house-lizard of a livid-golor. 4 ae X to manifest, to abuse. ae AWE shallow, thin, (chiéng)
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, secretary a teacher’s salary, (sdk-sit). obliging, related, connected. the temple of Mars. Manchuria
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In Akan, n*aniro se gyq onipa-trgne, he feigns himself to be a just man
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In trk-pro, grass
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ot of Urgellb. 1060ESCatholic priest
- Ot de Montcadab. 1150Spanish troubadour
- Ot Ferrer i Ninb. 1848ESSpanish politician (1848-1913)
- Ot Louwb. 1946NLDutch film editor (1946-2021)
- Ot Pib. 1970ESSpanish mountain bike trials rider
- Ot Ferrerb. 2002ESSpanish ski mountaineer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 13 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ot mean, and where does it come from?
- Initialism of overtime. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Ot have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 151 people named Ot in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled o-t.
- Where is Ot most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ot is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 210 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ot?
- In Spain, the national register counted 62 people named Ot, about 1 in 807 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/otThe 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, “Ot”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.