Otilia
Fewer than twenty Polish women carry it, so most people here will never meet one, and no girl has been named Otilia this century. A Germanic name at root, meaning "heritage" or inherited wealth.
Otilia Pronunciation
Otilia is pronounced o-TEEL-yah (/ɔˈtilja/).
What Otilia means
Where Otilia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Otilia grows from a Germanic root, the element od, which named heritage and inherited wealth. The older forms were Odila and Ottilia, given to daughters set to carry a family's holdings forward. In Polish the sense sits near dziedziczka, an heiress, and ojcowizna, the land a father leaves behind.
The root is Germanic, yet Otilia settled deeply into Spanish. It spread through Spain and Latin America as an everyday form, familiar on official papers and in parish records. Behind it stands Saint Odilia of Alsace, an eighth-century abbess and later the patron of the blind, whose cult carried the name well past its homeland.
In a Polish class register the name appears as Otylia, the local variant with a y. The meaning held. What the name promised was property and inheritance, ojcowizna passed from one generation to the next.
How many people are named Otilia
1 in 1502922 women in Poland is named Otilia. 15 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #12222 among female names.
Otilia as a middle name
Otilia is a first name for 15 women in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 75/25 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3796th, between Orysia (5) and Otylda (5).
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#3794 Orianna5
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#3795 Orysia5
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#3796 Otilia5
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#3797 Otylda5
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#3798 Otylla5