Given name & surname
Ota
“a wealthy man”
Ota is used as a given name and a surname. One Czech interpretation is “a wealthy man.”
Original CzechOto
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Czech interpretation is “a wealthy man.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Czech.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1881. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ota through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 215
- 0 boys · 215 girls
- Most popular year
- 1916
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
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- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1937. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 13 in 1916. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,738 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ota’s family of names
In Czech usage, Ota has a diminutive in Otík. In Czech usage, Ota has a conventional equivalent in the English form Otto. In Czech usage, Ota has a conventional equivalent in the French form OTHON.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Ota has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Czech roots to each of them.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ota
- Ota ZarembaCzech weightlifter (1957–2026)
- Ota PavelCzech writer and sport publicist (1930–1973)
- Ota ŠikCzech economist and politician (1919–2004)
- Ota FilipCzech writer (1930–2018)
- Ota FukárekCzech tennis playerborn 1977
- Ota HofmanCzech playwright, scriptwriter and writer (1928–1989)
- Ota BubeníčekCzech natural painter, puppeteer and painter (1871-1962)
- Ota KrausCzech jew writer1921–2000
- Otto IV of BergauCzech nobleman1399–1452
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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