Otis

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Otis: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Otis: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #67, and it stood at #468 in 2025.

5registrars recorded it
52times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#67highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#654
1997	#788
1998	#780
1999	#750
2000	#881
2001	#786
2002	#907
2003	#746
2004	#749
2005	#406
2006	#469
2007	#492
2008	#461
2009	#416
2010	#381
2011	#392
2012	#349
2013	#329
2014	#284
2015	#258
2016	#229
2017	#193
2018	#192
2019	#124
2020	#96
2021	#81
2022	#68
2023	#70
2024	#67

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #67 among boys in England and Wales, #209 among boys in Scotland, #239 among boys in Northern Ireland, #430 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #654 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #67 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #468 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Otis appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 6,395 births with the name.

Otis across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Otis's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#654 (1996)	#67 (2024)	#67 (2024)	29 of 29	6,395 (1996–2024)	842 (2022)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#328 (2008)	#239 (2024)	#239 (2024)	10 of 17	50 (2008–2024)	8 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#699 (2015)	#306 (2022)	#468 (2025)	10 of 11	77 (2015–2025)	14 (2022)
New Zealand · Boys	#88 (2021)	#88 (2021)	#90 (2022)	2 of 2	109 (2021–2022)	56 (2021)

Otis by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Otis in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	86	4 of 10	22
2000s	494	10 of 10	49
2010s	2,078	10 of 10	208
2020sbusiest	3,737	5 of 10	747

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 747 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2018 and 2019, when recorded births rose by 178, from 277 to 455.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Otis appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #67 in England and Wales in 2024.

Otis's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#67	762	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#70	784	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#68	842	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#81	737	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#96	612	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#124	455	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#192	277	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#193	281	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#229	245	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#258	198	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#284	164	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#329	127	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#349	125	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#392	100	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#381	106	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#416	93	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#461	77	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#492	66	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#469	67	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#406	74	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#749	30	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#746	28	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#907	19	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#786	22	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#881	18	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#750	22	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#780	20	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#788	20	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#654	24	High	Verified
2022	New Zealand	male	#90	53	High	Verified
2021	New Zealand	male	#88	56	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#239	8	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#312	5	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#264	7	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#266	7	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#270	6	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#418	3	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	male	#416	3	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	male	#398	3	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	male	#311	4	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	male	#328	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#468	7	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#430	8	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#343	11	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#306	14	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#364	10	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#556	5	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#335	12	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#749	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#601	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#699	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#209	20	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 5 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #67, first reached in 2024.

It held a top-100 place in 5 years, 5 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 842 births, registered in England and Wales in 2022.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2008, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Alba · #66, 31y
Britney · #66, 29y
Caitlyn · #66, 29y
Kaitlyn · #66, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Filippa · #67, 27y
Alba · #66, 31y
Amara · #68, 30y
Britney · #66, 29y

Otis was ranked #67 in England and Wales · Boys in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Otis and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Otis without appearing here.

Otis moved ahead of

Ashleigh Compare
In 2000 they stood at #881 and #881 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #786 and #1595.
Graham Compare
In 2003 they stood at #746 and #695 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #749 and #1347.
Courtney Compare
In 2002 they stood at #907 and #907 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #746 and #1248.
Keith Compare
In 2004 they stood at #749 and #667 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #406 and #827.

Moved ahead of Otis

Finley Compare
In 1996 they stood at #654 and #704 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #788 and #484.
Teddy Compare
In 1996 they stood at #654 and #755 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #788 and #578.
Hunter Compare
In 2013 they stood at #311 and #375 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2014 that had become #398 and #202.
Tommy Compare
In 2010 they stood at #328 and #378 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2011 that had become #311 and #149.

Moved the opposite way to Otis

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Otis went from #654 to #67 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Otis went from #654 to #67 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Otis went from #654 to #67 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Otis went from #654 to #67 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Otis

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Otis went from #654 to #67 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Otis went from #654 to #67 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Otis went from #654 to #67 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Otis went from #654 to #67 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #67 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Otis

Otis at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Otis across 4 official records

Otis by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Otis appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Otis

Otis and the names beside it

Otis moved ahead of

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Otis at a glance

Otis across 4 official records

Otis by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Otis appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Otis

Otis and the names beside it

Otis moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Otis

Moved the opposite way to Otis

Moved the same way as Otis