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Otto is a masculine German given name. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', ''Odo'', ''Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity".〔Förstemann, ''Altdeutsches Namenbuch '' (1856), s.v. ("Aud" ) (161–180). Förstemann calls the element "excessively frequent" (''Ein unendlich häufiger wortstamm''). Spelling variants listed for the short form are: ''Audo, Auto, Oudo, Outo, Outho, Aoto, Aotto, Oato, Odo, Odda, Oddo, Oto, Otto'' (8th century), ''Otho, Ottho, Odto, Hodo, Hoto, Hotto, Hottho, Ootto, Ocdo, Octto.'' The surviving signatures of the Ottonian kings mostly read ''Otto'', sometimes ''Odo'' or ''Oto''. Listed as variants surviving into Modern High German are: ''Hoth, Hotho, Oette, Ott, Otte, Otto, Otho.'' The similarity of the Roman cognomen Otho is entirely coincidential. The spelling ''Otto'' is first recorded s.a. 744 in the charters of the Diocese of Constance (ed. Neugart, ''codex diplomaticus Alamanniae'', 1791) and becomes increasingly common in the high medieval period.〕 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. The Gothic form of the prefix was ''auda-'' (as in e.g. ''Audaþius''), the Anglo-Saxon form was ''ead-'' (as in e.g. ''Eadmund''), the Old Norse form was ''auð-''. The given name Otis arose from an English surname, which was in turn derived from ''Ode'', a variant form of ''Odo, Otto''. Due to Otto von Bismarck, the given name ''Otto'' was strongly associated with the German Empire in the later 19th century. It was comparatively frequently given in the United States (presumably in German American families) during the 1880s to 1890s, remaining in the top 100 most popular masculine given names in the US throughout 1880–1898, but its popularity decreased significantly after 1900 with increasing anti-German sentiment leading up to World War I; it fell below rank 200 in 1919, below rank 500 in 1947, and below rank 1000 in 1975; it re-entered the top-1000 most popular given names in the US only in the 2010s, ranking 696th as of 2013.〔(US statistics (behindthename.com) ).〕 ==People called Otto== ;medieval *Otto (mayor of the palace) (died 643 or 644), mayor of the palace of Austrasia briefly in the mid-7th century *Otto I, Duke of Saxony (851-912) *the Ottonian dynasty * *Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (912-973) * *Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor (955-983) * *Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (980-1002) *Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1175/1176-1218) *Otto of Freising (c. 1114-1158), bishop and chronicler ;modern *Otto Dowling (1881–1946), 25th Governor of American Samoa *Otto of Greece (1815–1867), King of Greece *Otto of Bavaria (1848–1916), King of Bavaria *Otto Adler, president of the Jewish Association of Romania *Otto Frank (1889–1980), father of Anne Frank *Otto Freundlich (1878–1943), German painter and sculptor *Otto Graham (1921–2003), professional American football and basketball player *Otto Graf Lambsdorff (1926–2009), German politician *Otto Grotewohl (1894–1964), East German politician *Otto Herschmann (1877–1942), Austrian Olympic fencing and swimming medalist *Otto Knows (born 1989), Swedish DJ *Otto Klemperer (1885–1973), German-born conductor and composer *Otto Kretschmer (1912–1998), German WWII U-Boat Captain *Otto Lilienthal (1848–1896), German aviator *Otto Peterson (1960–2014), American comedian (Otto & George ventriloquism act) *Otto Plath (1885–1940), father of American Poet, Sylvia Plath, and entomologist *Otto Preminger (1905–1986), Austro–Hungarian-born American film director *Otto Rehhagel (born 1938), German football coach *Otto Scheff (1889–1956), Austrian Olympic swimming champion *Otto Schmitt (field hockey) (born 1965), Argentine field hockey goalkeeper *Otto Skorzeny (1908–1975), Austrian-born Waffen-SS commando *Otto Soglow (1900–1975), American cartoonist *Otto van Verschuer (1927–2014), Dutch politician *Otto Christian Archibald von Bismarck (1897-1975), German politician and diplomat *Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), Prussian/German statesman *Otto von Habsburg (1912–2011), head of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine from 1922 to 2007 *Otto Waalkes (born 1948), German comedian and actor *Otto Wahle (1879–1963), Austrian-born American Olympic swimming medalist and Hall of Fame *Otto F. Walter (1928–1994) Swiss journalist, author and publisher *Otto Weininger (1880–1903), Christian Austrian philosopher *Otto Dix (1891–1969), German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of Weimar society and the brutality of war. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Otto」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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