Ottilie

Ottilie is a given name for women. The name is a French derivative of the medieval German masculine name Otto, and has the meaning "prosperous in battle", "riches", "prosperous" or "wealth". Its popularity in the US peaked in 1880 when it reached almost 600th position.

Ottilie is a variant of Odile. Ottilia, Ottiliana, and Ottoline are variants of Ottilie.

People with the name include:

• Ottilie Abrahams, a Namibian activist.
• Ottilie Assing, a German journalist.
• Ottilie von Bistram, a Latvian writer and teacher.
• Ottilia Borbáth, a Romanian actor.
• Ottilie Davidová, the youngest of Franz Kafka's three sisters.
• Ottilie Fleischer, a German athlete.
• Ottilie Louise Fresco, a Dutch scientist.
• Ottilie Godefroy, an Austrian actor who performed under the name Tilla Durieux.
• Ottilie von Hansemann, a German women's rights activist.
• Ottilie Houser Brattain, American mathematician and mother of the physicist Walter Houser Brattain.
• Ottilie Hoffmann, a German educationalist and social reformer.
• Ottilie of Katzenelnbogen, a German aristocrat.
• Tillie Klimek, an American serial killer.
• Ottilie Kruger, American actor and daughter of the actor Otto Kruger.
• Ottilia Carolina Kuhlman, a Swedish actor.
• Ottoline Leyser, a British plant biologist.
• Ottilie A. Liljencrantz, an American writer.
• Ottilia Littmarck, a Swedish actor and director.
• Tilly Losch, an Austrian dancer and choreographer.
• Ottilie Maclaren Wallace, a Scottish sculptor.
• Ottilie Metzger, a German contralto.
• Lady Ottoline Morrell, an English society hostess.
• Ottilie Mulzet, a translator of Hungarian poetry and prose.
• Ottilie Palm Jost, a Canadian impressionist artist.
• Ottilie Patterson, a Northern Irish jazz singer.
• Ottilie Roederstein, a Swiss painter.
• Ottilie Stibaner, a German chess player
• Ottilie Sutro, an American pianist.
• Ottilie Wildermuth, a German writer.

Fictional characters:

• Ottilie, a principal character in the novel Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
• Ottilie Harshom, protagonist in John Wyndham‘s story "Random Quest", published in 1961 and later made into the film Quest for Love.
• Ottilie, in "To Ottilie" by Robert Louis Stevenson.
• Ottilie, in the short story "House of Flowers" by Truman Capote, later adapted into a musical of the same name.