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Ottilia

#8,230 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Odilia

Ottilia has been given to 597 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #8,230 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1891, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Ottilia, 2025

1 in 255,000

Ottilia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ottilia: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Odilia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ottilia means

Ottilia is a form of Odilia.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Ottilia → Odilia. The family’s meaning is “heritage or wealth, fortune”, recorded in the naming reference for Odilia.

Origin, language, and formation

Ottilia is used in English and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Odilia and Odile.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 597 girls were recorded with the name Ottilia between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1891; its best national rank was #569 in 1891.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,118 in 2020 to #8,230 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #15,924 in 2015 to #8,230 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Ottilia?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 124,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,230
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ottilia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ottilia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ottilias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ottilia was born before 1910 — so the typical Ottilia is around 115 today.

Median birth year
1910
About 115 years old
Biggest decade
1890s
23.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
93
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1890s — 23.8% of all recorded uses (142).

Is Ottilia rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+588
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,888
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+7,694
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.17×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
59.1%
Peak was 1891 (22)
Years since peak
134
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#569
1891

Spellings of Ottilia

Ottilia is not the most common spelling — Otilia is, with 26.7% against Ottilia's 9.4%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Ottilia is used

Across 1910–2025, Ottilia was most concentrated in North Dakota — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 108,461 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Dakota1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ottilia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ottilia around the world

Where Ottilia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2009–2025
    #2,605
    in 2025
  • France
    2000–2024
    #7,100
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2009–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ottilia by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,230
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,888
Best rank ever
#569
1891
Peak year
1891
22 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
597
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Ottilia

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

OttilieEmmeliaCamiliaJamiliaFideliaMoreliaAmilliaKameliaRoseliaAmelliaJameliaVidaliaEmilliaAthaliaSiciliaAzayliaKataliaNoheliaKamiliaAmeiliaCataliaMahliaRozaliaCallia

Sibling names for Ottilia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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