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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Othello

Recorded for both sexesGen X

2025 rank

#9,476

down −3,641 places

2025 births

8

down −8 births

All-time births

687

1% of them in 2025

More common than

86%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1923
16 births
Best rank
#1,843
in 1914
First recorded
1913
#3,144 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1968
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
84 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 192316#2,095Peak
  2. 202416#5,835
  3. 202215#6,072
  4. 202315#6,146
  5. 191914#2,233

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #1,843 in 1914 · peak births 16 in 1923

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 86% boys■ 14% girls

687 boys · 116 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Othello has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.