Otto

Otto is a palindrome wearing a monocle. From the Old Germanic Audo, short for names containing aud, "wealth" or "fortune," the name belonged to four Holy Roman emperors of the Ottonian dynasty in the tenth and eleventh centuries and later to Otto von Bismarck, the architect of modern Germany. It faded hard in America after World War I — a casualty of anti-German sentiment — and stayed rare until recent vintage-revival families rediscovered it. Otto now sits at 274, climbing steadily. Two snapping syllables, the bright double T. Stout, clever, a little dry. A name that sounds like a child who will invent something by age nine.