Ott
Where Ott comes from
Ott hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.
Along the way
- 1882Debut at its peak, #837#837 among boys with 6 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
- 1883The fadeThe first year with half the peak's births.
- 1987Ott Tänak bornEstonian rally driver
- 1987Ott Lepland bornEstonian singer
In the dictionary
No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.
Namesakes
- Ott Lepland · Estonian singer, born 1987
- Ott Tänak · Estonian rally driver, born 1987
- Ott Arder · Estonian poet, 1950–2004
- Ott Sepp · Estonian actor, born 1982
- Ott Christoph Hilgenberg · German engineer and scientist, 1896–1976
Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.