Othel
Recorded 1906–1968 · United States
Othel was most popular in 1921, when 45 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,103 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 886 people named Othel.
Othel over time
How old is the name Othel?
Othel first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1906, which makes it about 119 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 52 of the 120 years since. It was last recorded in 1968.
How many people are named Othel?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 886 American births named Othel 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 123 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Othel in 2025?
Othel 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.
Is Othel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Othel is mostly a boy’s name — 17.4% of the 886 Americans given it were girls and 82.6% were 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.
How old is someone named Othel?
Roughly 123 Americans named Othel are alive today — 14% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 78 years old, and half are between 69 and 86.
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.
Where Othel is most concentrated
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