🔥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, rather like Amelie and Elodie. Ottilie is less popular in the US, where many Americans pronounce it as a near-homonym for "oddly".

Sweet but stylish, Ottilie was once reserved for the British upper crust, to be spotted among The Telegraph name rankings, rather than in your average school class. However, it has been quickly climbing the charts since 2015, and in 2022, it debuted in the UK Top 100.

Rarely seen in the US 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 Wyndham 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. Others include the Irish Jazz singer, Ottilie Patterson, and Ottilie Rue Sugg, daughter of British influencers, Zoe Sugg and Alfie Deyes.

Popular among Nameberry users, Ottilie is both vintage and playful, with the sweet nickname options of Lottie, Tillie, Otto, and Otter.

If the popularity of Ottilie puts you off, or it doesn't sound right in your accent, you could try a variant, such as Ottoline, Ottilia, and Odile, or names with similar sounds and style, such as Odessa, Odette, Romilly, or Coralie.

Ottilie Rank in US Top 1000

# 930 in the US

Ottilie Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 76 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Ottilie

• 76 Nameberry 2025
• 69 England 2023

20 Names Similar to Ottilie

These 20 names were selected by our users that were looking for other names like Ottilie.

• Orla
• Blythe
• Oona
• Enid
• Romilly
• Imogen
• Paloma
• Elspeth
• Ida
• Ines
• Sylvie
• Saoirse
• Odette
• Etta
• Aoife
• Cosette
• Ingrid
• Leonie
• Blythe
• Tallulah

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

International Variations of the name Ottilie

• Otilie Czech
• Otylia Polish
• Ottorina Portuguese