Entry № 7866 · Romanian origin

Otilia Otilia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ oh-TEE-lee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Romanian
Meaning
"Fortunate hero"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Romanian)

A name that means "fortunate hero".

Otilia is the Romanian and Spanish form of Ottilie — from the Germanic aud (fortune) and hild (battle).

Otilia is widely used in Romania. The novel Otilia's Enigma (1938) by George Călinescu is a Romanian classic.

Fortunate hero. The Romanian Ottilie.

The name in its native script.

Otilia
Transliteration
Otilia
Pronunciation
/ oʊˈtiː.li.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Otilia stands.

Otilia does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Otilias before her.

Real people
Otilia Cazimir
Romanian poet.
1894 – 1967
In fiction
Otilia
Heroine of Călinescu's Otilia's Enigma.
1938 novel

Names connected to Otilia.

The number behind Otilia.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Otilia reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.