Girl · Old High German
Ottilie
Say it: oh-TEE-lee-eh
Meaning
From a Germanic pet form built on od/aud 'wealth, prosperity'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Goethe gave the name to a heroine of Elective Affinities; it was moderately used in German lands in the 19th century.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1880s
In the United States
- 828 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1882, about 1 in 5,400 girls
- 19 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The Early Middle Ages400 to 800
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Ottilia, Odilia
| French | Odile |
|---|---|
| Italian | Ottilia |
| Swedish | Ottilia |
| Czech | Otýlie |
| Latin | Odilia |
Famous bearers
- Saint Odile, patron saint of Alsace
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Where this comes from
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
- Calendars of saints and name days
- Well-known works of literature
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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