Otello
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Otello is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Potere, ricchezza.
- GYGuyana1 in 750K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 1.7M
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.5M
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- 1 in 750K (inferred from the name graph)
8 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Potere, ricchezza
Sources 1
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Otello 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 8 | 1 in 4.8M | 8 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 7 | 1 in 2.5M | 7 | Otello | 3 |
| SE Sweden | 6 | 1 in 1.7M | 6 | — | — |
| IT Italy | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 35M | 1 | Otello | 26 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 1 |
8 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. 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: ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Otello Capitanib. 1890ITItalian gymnast
- Otello Martellib. 1902ITItalian cinematographer (1902-2000)
- Otello Subinaghib. 1910ITItalian footballer (1910-2001)
- Otello Colangelib. 1912ITItalian film editor (1912-1998)
- Otello Pighinb. 1912ITItalian engineer (1912–1945)
- Otello Tosob. 1914ITItalian actor (1914-1966)
- Otello Favab. 1915ITItalian makeup artist
- Otello Trombettab. 1915ITItalian footballer
- Otello Montanarib. 1926ITItalian politician (1926–2018)
- Otello Profaziob. 1934ITItalian musician (1934-2023)
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 24 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Otello mean, and where does it come from?
- Potere, ricchezza Recorded by Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,….
- Is Otello a male or female name?
- Otello 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 Otello have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 8 people named Otello, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Otello most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Otello is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 750 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Otello?
- In Poland, the national register counted 8 people named Otello in 2026, about 1 in 4.8 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/otelloThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Otello”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.