Otto
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Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants Audo, Odo, Udo) of Germanic names beginning in aud-, an element meaning "wealth, prosperity".
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- Given name.name
- Otto
- Given name.image
- Otto+von+bismarck.jpg
- Given name.caption
- Otto von Bismarck, one of the famous bearers of this name
- Given name.gender
- masculine
- Given name.origin
- German
- Given name.related names
- Otho, Otis
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Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants Audo, Odo, Udo) of Germanic names beginning in aud-, an element meaning "wealth, prosperity".
The name is recorded from the 7th century (Odo, son of Uro, courtier of Sigebert III). It was the name of three 10th-century German kings, the first of whom was Otto I the Great, the first Holy Roman Emperor, founder of the Ottonian dynasty.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Otto” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.