Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Otella

#32,123 most common girls' name of all time · #51,798 across all names · 0% male / 100% female · used 1915–1941

Rank among girls
#32,123
Rank overall
#51,798 of 105,966
First appeared
1915
Years on the list
8 of 146
All-time
50
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1924 #3,607
Best rank
#3,607 1924
Girls Boys peak 9/yr
19201940

Otella first appears in 1915. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1941 5 — 5 #4,728
1935 5 — 5 #4,560
1924 9 — 9 #3,607
1920 5 — 5 #5,371
1919 8 — 8 #3,744
1917 5 — 5 #4,994
1916 7 — 7 #3,862
1915 6 — 6 #4,237