Ottó
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/otːoː/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ottó is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From German Otto.
- SESweden1 in 627(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 736
- DKDenmark1 in 1.1K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 437 (measured from records)
- 1 in 380 (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Otto in US United States, DE Germany, FI Finland and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From German Otto.
Sources 2
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ottó 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #180 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 736 | — | Otto | 227 |
| SE Sweden | #363 | 16,266 | 1 in 627 | 16K | Otto | 91 |
| US United States | — | 14,718 | 1 in 23K | 23K | Otto | 437 |
| FI Finland | #517 | 14,668 | 1 in 380 | 30K | Otto | 45 |
| BR Brazil | — | 8,344 | 1 in 25K | 8.3K | — | 5 |
| HU Hungary | #457 | 7,328 | 1 in 1.3K | 7.3K | Ottó | 60 |
| DK Denmark | #243 | 5,167 | 1 in 1.1K | 5.2K | Otto | 120 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Ottó Titusz Bláthyb. 1860HUHungarian mechanical engineer (1860–1939)
- Ottó Hellmichb. 1874HUgymnast (1874-1937)
- Ottó Komolyb. 1892HUHungarian humanitarian (1892-1945)
- Ottó Korvinb. 1894HUHungarian politician (1894-1919)
- Otto von Habsburgb. 1912ATHead of the House of Habsburg and German politician
- Ottó Fokyb. 1927HUHungarian animated film director (1927–2012)
- Ottó Borosb. 1929HUHungarian water polo player (1929–1988)
- Ottó Tolnaib. 1940RSSerbo-Hungarian writer (1940–2025)
- Zoltán Kocsisb. 1952HUnot in their usual nameclassical pianist, conductor and composer (1952–2016)
- Ottó Heinekb. 1960HUHungarian German journalist and politician (1960–2018)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 7 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Ottó mean, and where does it come from?
- From German Otto. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Ottó?
- A machine transcription gives /otːoː/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
- In which country does Ottó have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 109 thousand people named Ottó in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled otto.
- Where is Ottó most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ottó is densest in Finland — about 1 in 380 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- Is Ottó a male or female name?
- Ottó 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.
- What are other forms of the name Ottó?
- In the etymology graph, Odilon, Rino and Odilo are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Ottó?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 16,266 people named Ottó, about 1 in 627 residents.
- How common is Ottó compared with other names?
- In Germany, Ottó is the 180th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ottó?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ott%C3%B3The 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, “Ottó” — the 180th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.