Recorded 1880–2018 · United States
Otha was most popular in 1921, when 180 American babies were given the name — ranking #978 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 7,789 people named Otha.
The Social Security Administration’s records begin in 1880, and Otha is already there in that first year — so the name is older than the record and these figures cannot date it. It has been recorded in 130 of the 146 years since. It was last recorded in 2018.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 7,789 American births named Otha between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,541 are estimated to be alive today.
Otha was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Otha is out of use. It averaged 5 births a year a decade ago and has not been recorded in the last five years.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Otha is mostly a boy’s name — 18.0% of the 7,789 Americans given it were girls and 82.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 2,541 Americans named Otha are alive today — 33% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 70 years old, and half are between 56 and 79.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org