Otto

German
"wealthy"

Otto Origin and Meaning

The name Otto is a boy's name of German origin meaning "wealthy".

Otto is cool again. Long a quintessential Old Man Name, Otto has been promoted to trending darling of adventurous baby namers.

Like most German names, Otto fell out of favor during and after the two World Wars – it had been a Top 100 name in the years preceding. Off the Top 1000 from the mid-1970s until 2011, Otto is now headed straight uphill.


Otto Frank was the father of Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl who wrote her famous diary during her family's years in hiding from the Nazis during World War II. She was killed in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945 and her father Otto typed and edited the diary himself to prepare it for publication.

Otto Hightower is a character in the Game of Thrones universe, played by Rhys Ifans in the HBO prequel House of the Dragon.

Feminine forms of Otto include Ottoline, Ottilie, Odilia and Odette, all fashionable in the UK along with Otto itself.

# 281 in the US

Otto Rank in US Top 1000

# 45 on Nameberry

Otto Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Otto Popularity

Famous People Named Otto

  • Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck
    1st Chancellor of Germany
  • Otto von Habsburg
    last Crown Prince of Austria,Hungary
  • Otto I
    IV, Holy Roman Emperors
  • Otto Friedrich Ludwig
    King of Greece
  • Otto Wilhelm Luitpold Adalbert Waldemar von Wittelsbach
    King of Bavaria
  • Otto Heinrich Frank
    German,Swiss father of diarist Anne Frank
  • Otto Emil Plath
    father of American writer Sylvia Plath
  • Otto Ludwig Preminger
    Austrian,American film director
  • Otto Everett Graham
    American NFL football player
  • Otto Jones
    younger brother of American actor Angus T. Jones
  • Otto Wood
    American drummer of the band Waterparks
  • Otto Scheff
    German Olympic swimmer
  • Otto Klemperer
    German,American conductor
  • Otto Gerhard Waalkes
    German comedian and actor
  • Otto Wallach
    German chemist; winner of the Nobel Prize
  • Otto Fritz Meyerhof
    German physician; winner of the Nobel Prize
  • Otto Heinrich Warburg
    German biochemist; winner of the Nobel Prize
  • Otto Loewi
    German pharmacologist; winner of the Nobel Prize
  • Otto Stern
    German physicist; winner of the Nobel Prize
  • Otto Hahn
    German chemist; winner of the Nobel Prize
  • Otto Vogl
    Austrian,American chemist
  • Otto Porter
    American basketball player
  • Otto Warmbier
    late American student held hostage in North Korea
  • Otto Kilcher
    American reality TV star on "Alaska: The Last Frontier"; uncle of singer Jewel
  • Otto Patrick Dunstan (b. 2013)
    son of Australian youtubers Rohan and Chloe Dunstan (Life with Beans)

Otto in Pop Culture

  • Otto Rocket
    character on animated series "Rocket Power"
  • Otto Maddox
    main character in film "RepoMan"
  • Otto Mann
    bus driver on TV's "The Simpsons"
  • Otto Delaney
    character on TV's "Sons of Anarchy"
  • Otto Klopp
    character in Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan Series
  • Otto Octavius aka Doctor Octopus
    villain in Spider,Man comics
  • Otto Osworth
    character on the animated series Time Squad
  • Otto Flick
    character on British TV series 'Allo 'Allo!
  • Otto Meyer
    character in the 1963 film "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"
  • Otto
    talking ferret in 2002 animated film "Barbie as Rapunzel"
  • Otto
    Sarge's dog in comic strip "Beetle Bailey"
  • Otto Chriek
    vampire photographer from the "Discoworld" series by Terry Pratchett
  • Otto the Gorilla
    character in film "The Haunted World of El Superbeasto"
  • Otto the Autopilot
    the blow,up autopilot doll in 1980 film Airplane!
  • Otto West
    character in the 1988 film "A Fish Called Wanda"
  • Otto Malpense
    the main character in the H.I.V.E. series by Mark Walden
  • Otto "Unbreakable" Zander
    character in video game series X,COM Enemy Unknown[4]
  • Otto the Orange
    mascot of Syracuse University
  • Otto
    character in the game "Minecraft Story Mode"
  • Otto the Auto
    AAA's education program for elementary school aged kids

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