🔥Ottilie

oh-TILL-ee-eh, OT-ill-ee

German, French

"prosperous in battle"

Ottilie Origin and Meaning

The name Ottilie is a girl's name of French origin meaning "prosperous in battle".

Ottilie is trending in the UK, where the pronounced T helps the name sound pretty and delicate, ala Amelie. Ottilie is less popular in the US, where many Americans pronounce it as a near-homonym for "oddly".

Ottilie and its diminutive Ottiline are a pair of names heard among the British upper crust, but have rarely been seen here since the 1880s. Ottilie does have a few cultural references: She is a key character in Goethe's Elective Affinities, Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a poem called To Ottilie, Franz Kafka had a sister named Ottilie, and it is the name of the protagonist in the John Wyndom sci-fi story Random Quest.

Probably the best-known Ottilie is the German journalist, abolitionist, and feminist Ottilie Assing, who had a long involvement with fellow abolitionist Frederic Douglass.

Some attractive Ottilie relatives: Ottoline, Ottilia, and Odile. And Ottilie has the adorable nicknames Lottie and Tillie.

Ottilie Rank in US Top 1000

# 930 in the US

Ottilie Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 70 on Nameberry

Ottilie Popularity

• 70 Nameberry 2024
• 118 England 2021

20 Names Similar to Ottilie

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• Ottoline
• Romilly
• Odette
• Orla
• Delphine
• Isolde
• Ophelia
• Elodie
• Elspeth
• Lottie
• Theodora
• Cosima
• Enid
• Cecily
• Opal
• Niamh
• Imogen
• Clementine
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Famous People Named Ottilie

• Ottilie of Katzenelnbogen Margravine of Baden,Baden as wife of Christoph I
• Ottilie Bondy (Jeitteles) Austrian suffragette, daughter of Alois Isidor Jeitteles
• Ottilie Davida Assing German feminist, freethinker, and abolitionist
• Ottilie Ethel Leopoldine Herbert birth name of Tilly Losch, Countess of Carnarvon, Austrian,American dancer and actress
• Ottilie Wildermuth German children's author
• Ottilie Grete Abrahams Namibian activist, politician and educator
• Ottilie Metzger Lattermann, German contralto
• Ottilie Wilhelmine Roederstein German,Swiss painter
• Ottilie Sutro American pianist, sister of Rose Sutro
• Ottilie "Tilla" Durieux Austrian actress
• Ottilie "Ottla" Kafka favourite sister of Franz Kafka
• Ottilie Patterson Irish jazz singer