Ottilia
Ottilia was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,230 among girls’ names; 597 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ottilia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ottilia mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ottilia is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ottilia?
#8,230 among girls’ names, 2025
Ottilia rose from #15,924 in 2015 to #8,230 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.4 to 8.1 per million.
22 babies in 1891, the peak
Ottilia peaked in 1891, when 22 girls were given it, #569 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 59% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,230 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,818 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,549 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,962 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,812 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,118 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,183 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,457 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,598 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,924 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 6 | #16,035 | under 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,708 | under 0.01 |
| 1930 | 5 | #5,085 | under 0.01 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,330 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,589 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,444 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,950 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,606 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,838 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,730 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,348 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,874 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 19 | #1,974 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 15 | #2,352 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,516 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,340 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,658 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 12 | #2,097 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,991 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 13 | #1,597 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,778 | 0.01 |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,600 | 0.03 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,721 | 0.02 |
| 1908 | 10 | #1,416 | 0.03 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,610 | 0.03 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,656 | 0.02 |
| 1904 | 11 | #1,156 | 0.04 |
| 1903 | 9 | #1,290 | 0.03 |
| 1902 | 10 | #1,194 | 0.04 |
| 1901 | 10 | #1,119 | 0.04 |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,535 | 0.03 |
| 1899 | 12 | #968 | 0.05 |
| 1898 | 16 | #880 | 0.06 |
| 1897 | 13 | #923 | 0.06 |
| 1896 | 12 | #989 | 0.05 |
| 1895 | 16 | #811 | 0.07 |
| 1894 | 14 | #840 | 0.06 |
| 1893 | 13 | #855 | 0.06 |
| 1892 | 13 | #854 | 0.06 |
| 1891 | 22 | #569 | 0.12 |
| 1890 | 11 | #863 | 0.06 |
| 1889 | 11 | #831 | 0.06 |
| 1888 | 8 | #1,016 | 0.04 |
| 1887 | 8 | #925 | 0.05 |
| 1886 | 11 | #725 | 0.08 |
| 1885 | 11 | #686 | 0.08 |
| 1884 | 9 | #779 | 0.07 |
| 1883 | 6 | #895 | 0.05 |
| 1881 | 5 | #916 | 0.05 |
| 1880 | 5 | #915 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ottilia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ottilia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ottilia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ottilia, and how old are they?
An estimated 96 Americans named Ottilia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 161 people named Ottilia (161 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 45 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 5,240 babies since 1880, Ottilia is the fourth most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 96 babies (14%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ottilia
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ottilia and names like it
- Compare Ottilia and OtiliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1890sOttilia peaked in 1891.
- North Dakota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ottilia since 1910.
- The top names of 1891The year the most babies were named Ottilia.
- Names starting with OMost given first.