Meaning and background
The story behind Otie
Otie has an exact-letter character association in Smart Dublin's account of a community technology project. Artist Matthew Kelly created OTie as a comic-strip guide explaining the Internet of Things, with panels covering its history, workings and possible uses. The project supplies a specific contemporary character behind the spelling, whose capitalization highlights the technology abbreviation. It establishes this creative association without proving that the personal name Otie derives from Otis.
- Association
- Fictional-character association with OTie, an illustrated guide to the Internet of Things created for Smart Balbriggan. Source
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Recorded as a dog’s name
Otie appears in 13 dog licence records in the 2022 New York City dataset.
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Sources and research notes (1)
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene NYC Dog Licensing Dataset — all seven available extract years, retrieved 24 October 2026 — Recorded name spellings in NYC licence-period rows, extract years 2016–2018, 2022–2024 and 2026. Evidence selects one stated year per name. Annual snapshots overlap; never sum them as unique dogs. No national popularity, etymology or owner naming-intent claim.
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