Othel vs Other
American parents have registered 886 Othels since 1880, against 190 Others. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Othel Other
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Othel has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1906 to 1968. The lead has never changed hands.
The closest they came was 1912, when Othel had 8 and Other had 7.
Side by side
| Othel | Other | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 886 | 190 |
| Most in one year | 45 | 15 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 120 | 3 |
| Median age today | 77 | 91 |
| Peak year | 1921 | 1916 |
| Best rank | 1,140th boys | 1,949th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1906 | 1909 |
| Girls / boys | 154 / 732 | 0 / 190 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Others alive today are over 91; half the Othels are over 77. That is 14 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Othel and Other.