Given name · also Latin
Otilia
“wealth, riches”
Otilia is a feminine given name from Latin, ultimately from Old High German. It is used in Norwegian Bokmål and Romanian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Otilia goes back to a word meaning “wealth, riches.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Otilia 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 1893. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Otilia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,696
- 0 boys · 1,696 girls
- Most popular year
- 1935
- 36 babies
- 2025
- 18
- #6,492 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +73%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 18 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 6,492 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 36 in 1935. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,886 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.
Otilia’s family of names
In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Otilia has a short form in TILIA. In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Otilia shares a linguistic root with the German form Ottilie. In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Otilia has a related form in OTELIA.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Otilia has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
9 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Tiliashort form · Norwegian Bokmål
- Otillialikely variant
- Otheliavariant · Norwegian Bokmål
- Oteliavariant · Norwegian Bokmål
- Othilievariant · Norwegian Bokmål
- Otilievariant · Norwegian Bokmål
- Othiliavariant · Norwegian Bokmål
- Othelievariant · Norwegian Bokmål
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Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Otilia
- Otilia BădescuRomanian female former table tennis playerborn 1970
- Otilia CazimirRomanian poet (1894-1967)
- Otilia BrumăRomanian singerborn 1992
- Otilia LuxGuatemalan politicianborn 1949
- Otilia Ruicu-EșanuRomanian female sprinterborn 1978
- Otilia Mó RomeroSpanish scientistborn 1947
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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