Given name & surname
Ott
“a wealthy man”
Ott is a short form of Otto. One German interpretation is “a wealthy man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ott is a short form of Otto. One German interpretation is “a wealthy man.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Ott is a short form of Otto. An origin associated with Otto is German.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Estonian usage, Ott is a short form of Otto.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1882. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Ott is a short form of Otto. The history of Otto gives this family its wider story. Otto has historical associations with German royal and princely families.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Ott through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 84
- 84 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1920
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1943. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 1920. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 108 as a first name in 2020; 25,045 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.
Ott’s family of names
In Estonian usage, Ott is a short form of Otto. In Estonian usage, Ott shares a linguistic root with the Finnish form Ohto. In German usage, Ott as a surname has a related form in Etle.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Ott has relatives in 4 languages.
13 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 10
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Ottovariant · German, Estonian
- Odevariant · German
- Etlevariant · German
- Öttlevariant · German
- Ottlevariant · German
- Ettlevariant · German
- Oettlevariant · German
- Uthvariant · German
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Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ott
- Ott TänakEstonian rally driver (born 1987)
- Ott LeplandEstonian singer (born 1987)
- Ott ArderEstonian poet (1950-2004)
- Ott SeppEstonian actor (born 1982)
- EelijaEstonian clergyman (1977-2024)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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