Given name · also Latin
Otelia
“wealth, riches”
Otelia is a feminine given name from Latin, ultimately from Old High German. It is used in Norwegian Bokmål.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Otelia goes back to a word meaning “wealth, riches.”
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Where it comes from
Otelia comes from Latin, and ultimately from Old High German.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Latin Otilia, from Old High German Odila; its root is Proto-Germanic *audaz.
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The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Otelia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,184
- 0 boys · 1,184 girls
- Most popular year
- 1923
- 35 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 1982. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 35 in 1923. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 483 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Otelia’s family of names
In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Otelia shares a linguistic root with the English form Ottilie. In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Otelia has a related form in OTILIA. In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Otelia has a related form in OTILIA.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Otelia has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
8 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 8
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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