Otto (first name)
Otto is a male given name that was worn by many secular and ecclesiastical rulers. It also occurs as a family name .
meaning
The name is originally a short form of names that begin with Old High German ot "possession, heritage", such as Otfried , Ottokar . Already in the early Middle Ages the name became independent, as did Bodo , Hugo and other abbreviations of the name. The term Ottos for a German dynasty is derived from the name of the first emperor of this generation, Otto I , from.
The expression “ normal consumer ” for the typical German average consumer goes back to the Berlin Ballad from 1948, a feature film by Robert Adolf Stemmle in which Gert Fröbe played the leading role as “normal consumer”. The word Otto is a palindrome in the strict sense. That is, it can be read from the back and the front and makes the same sense.
distribution
From the late nineteenth century to the mid-1910s, the name Otto was one of the ten most popular boys' first names. Then its popularity gradually declined, from the 1940s onwards even very significantly. It has hardly been awarded since the late 1950s.
variants
Udo , Odo , Otello, Othello , Otfrid, Otfried, Ottfried , Ottilie (female), Othmar , Ottmar, Ottomar , Othon, Ottone , Ute (female)
The name Ulrich and its variants have the same root, from Udal- .
Among the derived family names are:
- especially in Upper Bavaria and Tyrol as a popular variant of the belittling form of the old German emperor name: Öttl , Oettl , Ottl , Öttel , Ottel or Oettel .
name day
June 30th ( Otto von Bamberg )
Name bearer
Politician
- Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), Chancellor of the German Empire
- Otto Grotewohl (1894–1964), German politician, Prime Minister of the GDR
- Otto Graf Lambsdorff (1926–2009), Federal Minister of the FRG for Economics (1977–84)
- Otto Schily (* 1932), German Federal Minister of the Interior (1998-2005)
- Otto Wiesheu (* 1944), German politician (CSU)
Artist
- Otto Wagner (1841–1918), Austrian architect and urban planner
- Otto Modersohn (1865–1943), German painter
- Otto Dix (1891–1969), German painter and graphic artist
- Otto Gardner (* around 1950), American jazz musician
- Otto Kern (1950–2017), German designer
- Otto Lüthje (1902–1977), German actor, radio play speaker and director
- Otto Sonnleitner (1906–1985), German sculptor
- Otto Helbig (1914–2013), American musician, composer and arranger
- Otto Sander (1941–2013), German actor, radio play and voice actor
- Otto Stenzel (1903–1989), German film composer and band leader
- Otto Waalkes (* 1948), German comedian
scientist
- Otto von Guericke (1602–1686), founder of vacuum technology and mayor of Magdeburg
- Otto Lilienthal (1848–1896), German aviation pioneer
- Otto Diels (1876–1954), German chemist, Nobel Prize winner
- Otto Barsch (1879–1946), German geologist and geophysicist
- Otto Hahn (1879–1968), German pioneer of radiochemistry
athlete
- Otto Salzer (1874–1944), German mechanic and racing car driver
- Otto Hieronimus (1879–1922), German-Austrian automobile designer and racing driver
- Otto Löhr (1900–1989), German automobile racing driver
- Otto Siffling (1912–1939), German football player
- Otto Rehhagel (* 1938), German soccer player and coach
- Otto Garhofer (* 1942), German soccer player
- Otto Porter (* 1993), American basketball player
cleric
- Otto I (Saxony) (877–912), lay abbot from Hersfeld
- Otto von Bamberg (around 1060–1139), canonized bishop of Bamberg
- Otto von Freising (around 1112–1158), Bishop of Freising and historian
- Otto I. (Gurk) († 1214), as Otto I. elected bishop of Gurk
- Otto (Abbot of St. Blasien) († 1223), from 1222 to 1223 abbot in the monastery of St. Blasien in the southern Black Forest
- Otto von Mehringen († 1261), Bishop of Brandenburg
- Otto von Altena († 1262), (Otto von der Mark, later Otto von Altena), provost in Aachen and Maastricht
- Otto von Lonsdorf (around 1200–1265), Bishop of Passau
- Otto I of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1247–1279), Bishop of Hildesheim
- Otto II von Woldenberg († 1331), Bishop of Hildesheim
- Otto Jäger († 1385), from 1349 to 1385 abbot in the Ebrach monastery in Franconia
Entrepreneur
- Otto Kern (1914–2009), German textile entrepreneur, consul and association president
- Otto Flimm (1929–2020), German entrepreneur and association president
- Otto Lindner (1929–2020), German architect and entrepreneur
Fictional characters
- Otto Mann , school bus driver in the US animated series Simpsons
- Otto , android in the US comic series Captain Future ( called Otho in the original English language )
