Entry № 7871 · German origin

Ottilie Ottilie — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ OH-tih-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
German
Meaning
"Fortunate hero"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (German)

A name that means "fortunate hero".

Ottilie comes from the Germanic aud (wealth, fortune) and hild (battle) — meaning "fortunate in battle." Saint Odilia (660-720 CE) is the patron saint of Alsace and of blindness.

Ottilie is rising in the UK and Germany. The British actress Ottilie Patterson (1932-2011) was a notable bearer.

Fortunate hero. The patron of Alsace.

The name in its native script.

Ottilie
Transliteration
Ottilie
Pronunciation
/ ˈɒt.ɪ.li /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ottilie stands.

Ottilie 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.

Ottilies before her.

Real people
Ottilie Patterson
British blues singer.
1932 – 2011
In fiction
Ottilie
Heroine of Goethe's Elective Affinities.
1809 novel

Names connected to Ottilie.

The number behind Ottilie.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ottilie reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.