Ottilie
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ottilie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to French Odile.
- USUnited States1 in 961K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 80K
- SESweden1 in 173K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 103 (measured from records)
- 1 in 80K (inferred from the name graph)
346 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a female given name, equivalent to French Odile
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ottilie counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 346 | 1 in 961K | 343 | Ottilie | 103 |
| NL Netherlands | 217 | 1 in 80K | 217 | Ottilie | 5 |
| SE Sweden | 59 | 1 in 173K | 59 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 34 | 1 in 315K | 34 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 22 | 1 in 267K | 22 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 8 | 1 in 696K | 45 | — | 1 |
346 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); MVČR — living population register 2017; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ottilie is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Weiblicher Rufname als mögliche Basis für Genitivsurnamen auf -en; zeigt patronymische Ableitung über weibliche Rufnamen.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Metronym zu Odilia, aus dem Rufnamen Odilia; 112 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, from odal 'inheritance, possession'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, ) Ottilia: weibl. Vom., Neben form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
French and German: from the medieval female given name Odila (see ODILE ), a feminine version of OTTO . Cognates: Polish: Otylia. Czech: Otilie .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ottilie of Katzenelnbogenb. 1451DEGerman countess
- Odilia of Nassau-Weilburgb. 1546DEnot in their usual nameGerman countess
- Ottilie von Goetheb. 1796PLGerman writer, editor (1796–1872)
- Ottilie Wildermuthb. 1817DEGerman writer, editor (1817–1877)
- Ottilie Schwahnb. 1849DEGerman author (1849–1918)
- Ottilie Franzosb. 1856ATAustrian writer
- Ottilie Roedersteinb. 1859CHGerman-Swiss painter (1859–1937)
- Ottla Kafkab. 1892CZnot in their usual namesister of Franz Kafka
- Tilly Edingerb. 1897DEnot in their usual nameGerman paleontologist (1897-1967)
- Ottilie-Armilde Tinnurib. 1914EEEstonian supercentenarian (1914-2024)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 43 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ottilie mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, equivalent to French Odile Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Ottilie a male or female name?
- Ottilie is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Ottilie?
- In the etymology graph, Odette, Ute and Odile are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Ottilie have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 346 people named Ottilie, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ottilie.
- Where is Ottilie most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ottilie is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 80 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ottilie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 346 people named Ottilie in 2020, about 1 in 961 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ottilieThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ottilie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.