Ottilie

Ottilie is a girl's name stemming from the medieval German boy's name Otto. The name means "riches", "wealth" or "prosperity". It has never become very popular in modern culture and has remained very low on popularity rankings only reaching its peak in 1880 when it reached almost 600th position in the US.^[1] Ottilie is a much more common first name in German-speaking countries.^[2]

Ottilie was the name given to the female protagonist in John Wyndham's science fiction story "Random Quest" later made into a film "Quest for Love", starring Joan Collins as Ottilie, Tom Bell, Denholm Elliott and Laurence Naismith. The story is about a scientist, Colin Trafford, who crosses into a parallel world after a scientific demonstration goes wrong. He finds himself married to Ottilie Harshom, falls in love with her, and then desperately looks for her when he returns to his own world - the "quest" of the title.

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a poem called "To Ottilie".^[3]

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

• Ottilie Assing, a 19th century German journalist.
• Ottilie Patterson, a Northern Irish jazz singer who recorded in the late 1950s and early 1960s with Chris Barber.
• Ottilie Klimek, an American serial killer.
• Ottilie Louise Fresco, a Dutch scientist.
• Ottilie Metzger, a German opera singer.
• Ottilie Sutro, an American pianist.
• Ottilie Losch, an Austrian dancer and choreographer who lived and worked in the United States and United Kingdom.
• Ottilie Fleischer, a German athlete.
• Ottilie Davidová, the youngest of Franz Kafka's three sisters.
• Ottilie Wildermuth, a 19th century German writer.
• Ottilie Godefroy, an early 20th century Austrian actress who performed under the name Tilla Durieux.
• Ottilia Borbáth, a Romanian actress.
• Ottilia Carolina Kuhlman, a 19th century Swedish actress.
• Ottilia Littmarck, a Swedish actress and director.
• Ottoline Leyser, a British plant biologist.
• Lady Ottoline Morrell, an English society hostess.

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