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Otho - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Otho

[ syll. ot-ho, oth-o ] The boy name Otho is pronounced AH-THow KEY. Otho's origin is Germanic, and its use, German. Otho is a form of Otto (Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, and Scandinavian).

Otho is an uncommon baby boy name. At the modest height of its usage in 1902, 0.026% of baby boys were named Otho. It had a ranking of #332 then. The baby name has seen a steep decline in popularity since then, and is currently of only infrequent use. Within all boy names in its family, Otho was nevertheless the most widely used in 2008.

Baby names that sound like Otho include Odey (English), Otha (English), Otto (Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, and Scandinavian), Ottó (Hungarian), Aadi (Indian), Aatto (Finnish), Aatu (Finnish), Adad (Arabic and English), Adao (Portuguese and Spanish), Adão (Portuguese), Addie (English), Addy (Spanish), Adi (Hungarian and Yiddish), Adie (Scottish and English), Audie (English), Itay (Hebrew), Odd (Scandinavian), Ot (Dutch), Ad (English and Dutch), and Aditya (Indian).

KEY: approx English pronunciation for Otho: AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; TH as in "theta (TH.EY.T.AH)" ; OW as in "oat (OW.T)"


 
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