Oton
A Germanic name meaning "wealth, fortune," a relative of Otto. Fewer than 60 men in Poland carry it and no boys were given it last year, so most Poles will never meet an Oton.
Oton Pronunciation
Oton is pronounced O-ton (/ˈɔtɔn/).
What Oton means
Where Oton comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Oton grows from a Germanic root, the element aud-, meaning wealth or fortune. That same root produced the imperial name Otto, and Oton is how Polish took it in. The meaning stayed close to the origin: prosperity, a full store, good luck in worldly things.
Poland met the name early. In the year 1000, Emperor Otto III came to Gniezno to pray at the tomb of Saint Wojciech and to meet Bolesław Chrobry. A century later Oton of Bamberg traveled through Pomerania as a missionary, and Polish tradition remembers him as the apostle of that land.
The short meaning is plain. Wealth, fortune. On a school register in Poland, Oton reads as old and deliberate, a name a teacher notices when calling the list. The root under it still means what it meant to the Germanic speakers who first used it: fortune, a well-filled house.
How many people are named Oton
1 in 361800 men in Poland is named Oton. 59 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4826 among male names.
Oton as a middle name
Oton is a first name for 59 men in Poland and a middle name for another 65, a 48/52 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 900th, between Luc (65) and Sylwin (65).
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#898 Julio65
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#899 Luc65
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#900 Oton65
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#901 Sylwin65
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#902 Yan65