The OTTO surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	22,001	1483	0.008	82
United States (1880 census)	5,380	1127	0.011	108
Change since 1880	+16621	-356	-0.003	-26
Other Countries
Australia	800	2028	0.005	49
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for OTTO by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Wisconsin	2,103	185	0.039	392
Minnesota	1,747	217	0.036	355
California	1,521	2076	0.004	45
Illinois	1,193	1020	0.010	96
Pennsylvania	1,192	1166	0.010	97
Top States for OTTO by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Wisconsin	2,103	185	0.039	392
North Dakota	251	207	0.039	391
Minnesota	1,747	217	0.036	355
Nebraska	422	339	0.025	247
Iowa	616	453	0.021	211

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called OTTO live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called OTTO represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called OTTO in Wisconsin than any other state, but you are more likely to find a OTTO by picking someone at random in Wisconsin than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of OTTO

Region of origin: Europe

Ethnic distribution of OTTO in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	326	1.48
Black/African American	319	1.45
Mixed Race	253	1.15
Asian/Pacific	130	0.59
Native American/Alaskan	114	0.52
White (Caucasian)	20,861	94.82

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the OTTO surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to OTTO

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OTTO.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.