Ottilie
Ottilie is a given name for women. The name is a French derivative[1] of the medieval German masculine name Otto, and has the meaning "prosperous in battle", "riches", "prosperous" or "wealth".[2] Its popularity in the US peaked in 1880 when it reached almost 600th position.[3]
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.
References
- "Ottilie - Oxford Reference". doi:10.1093/acref/9780198610601.001.0001/acref-9780198610601-e-2527. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
- "Ottilie: Meaning Of Name Ottilie". nameberry.com. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
- Think baby names website
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