Othella · Shortlist Together

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Othella.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1889

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Per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.

See the 56 recorded years as a table

Othella, per million girls born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1889	39
1900	17
1903	23
1909	14
1910	23
1911	19
1912	13
1913	21
1914	14
1915	19
1916	21
1917	17
1918	16
1919	10
1920	18
1921	28
1922	22
1923	20
1924	16
1925	27
1926	17
1927	18
1928	10
1929	13
1930	19
1931	14
1932	12
1933	19
1934	15
1935	13
1936	12
1937	7
1938	18
1939	10
1940	9
1941	9
1942	7
1943	8
1944	5
1945	9
1946	6
1947	6
1948	4
1949	5
1950	4
1951	4
1952	4
1954	5
1955	3
1956	3
1957	4
1959	2
1960	3
1963	3
1966	3
1973	3

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Othella isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

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The numbers

Every figure

Births in 1973: 5
Rank in 1973: #8,423
How rare: 1 in 291,641 girls
Since 1889: 708

Othella was last recorded in 1973. Fewer than five girls have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1889, at 39 per million girls born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Othella doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.