Otylia
A Latin name that carries the idea of inheritance: prosperity and the family land handed down. Around 5,000 Polish women answer to it, and meeting one sticks with you, since it sits just inside the country's top 500.
Otylia Pronunciation
Otylia is pronounced o-TIHL-yah (/ɔˈtɨlja/).
What Otylia means
Where Otylia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Otylia traces back to Latin, to the idea of an inheritance handed down a family line. The short meaning gathers there: prosperity, and the estate a child stands to receive. In Polish the sense runs blunter, dziedziczka rodu, heiress of the house, alongside ojcowizna, the father's land.
The variant Otolia keeps the same weight with a softer middle. From either form a household draws Tola. Tola is the everyday name, the one a girl answers to long before she can spell the rest.
One bearer fixed Otylia in recent Polish memory. Otylia Jędrzejczak won Olympic gold in the 200 metre butterfly at Athens in 2004, and the name returned to class registers afterward. A teacher reading it at the urząd or the school desk meets a word that once meant a patrimony. That is what it holds: prosperity, heritage, and a Latin root about what a family passes on.
How many people are named Otylia
1 in 4296 women in Poland is named Otylia. 5,248 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #477 among female names.
Otylia's popularity over time
71 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #291 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2000.
Where Otylia is most popular
Otylia is most popular in Subcarpathian, 71% above the national average (51 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Pomeranian (+26%) and Łódź (+18%). It is least common in Podlaskie and West Pomeranian, 82% and 33% below average respectively.
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Subcarpathian51 girls born+71%
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Pomeranian46 girls born+26%
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Łódź37 girls born+18%
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Greater Poland58 girls born+9%
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Lesser Poland59 girls born+5%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian28 girls born+4%
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Świętokrzyskie14 girls born+2%
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Silesian55 girls born−2%
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Warmian-Masurian17 girls born−4%
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Lower Silesian36 girls born−7%
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Lubusz11 girls born−10%
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Opole10 girls born−12%
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Masovian75 girls born−14%
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Lublin20 girls born−21%
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West Pomeranian14 girls born−33%
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Podlaskie3 girls born−82%
Otylia as a middle name
Otylia is a first name for 5,248 women in Poland and a middle name for another 3,219, a 62/38 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 167th, between Marie (3,239) and Marzanna (3,124).
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165
3,256Józefina
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166
3,239Marie
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1673,219Otylia
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168
3,124Marzanna
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169
3,110Sonia
When Otylia celebrates name day
Otylia appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar. The main date is 13 December.