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Otelia

Latin roots

Language contexts for this entry: English, Norwegian Bokmål

feminineLatin script

/uˈteː.li.a/ · Norwegian Bokmål

Origin: Latin
2 language contexts: English Norwegian Bokmål
Follow the evidence: 2 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Otelia

Otelia is a feminine given name documented in English and Norwegian Bokmål. English Wiktionary traces it to Latin Otilia.

Latin origin

Source-reported

One of several Norwegian spellings of a female given name going back to Latin Otilia, originally Odilia, a Latinised form of Old High German Odila and Otila, pet forms of names such as Oda. The Old High German names are formed from the Germanic name element reflected in *audaz (“wealth, riches”), with a pet-name or diminutive ending. Compare Danish Otelia, Swedish Otelia, German Ottilie and English Ottilie (“female given name”).

Sources for this account (1)

Wiktionary: OteliaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

02 / Across borders

Where Otelia is used

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countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Otelia’s connections around the world.

1 country with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Statistics + language records

United States, 1982: 7 girls (rank 8224). Documented as a given name in English.

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4 of 11 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Otelia

Region and dataset

Recorded category girls

Latest · 1982: 7; applications; Rank #8,224
Peak year: 1923; 35 applications

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Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Otelia in United States, girls: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	7	679	observed
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	5	908	observed
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	5	1,147	observed
1888	no value	no value	not covered
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	15	693	observed
1891	10	893	observed
1892	no value	no value	not covered
1893	6	1,277	observed
1894	7	1,237	observed
1895	10	1,053	observed
1896	9	1,122	observed
1897	14	867	observed
1898	7	1,379	observed
1899	5	1,596	observed
1900	17	917	observed
1901	7	1,339	observed
1902	13	972	observed
1903	9	1,204	observed
1904	16	910	observed
1905	20	825	observed
1906	12	1,101	observed
1907	25	749	observed
1908	11	1,261	observed
1909	16	1,015	observed
1910	15	1,171	observed
1911	17	1,071	observed
1912	28	960	observed
1913	19	1,308	observed
1914	17	1,603	observed
1915	22	1,571	observed
1916	25	1,485	observed
1917	31	1,307	observed
1918	28	1,497	observed
1919	33	1,348	observed
1920	23	1,751	observed
1921	27	1,625	observed
1922	24	1,730	observed
1923	35	1,327	observed
1924	29	1,566	observed
1925	32	1,443	observed
1926	18	2,076	observed
1927	19	2,026	observed
1928	24	1,680	observed
1929	18	1,953	observed
1930	18	1,934	observed
1931	19	1,803	observed
1932	20	1,754	observed
1933	21	1,658	observed
1934	12	2,424	observed
1935	21	1,663	observed
1936	16	1,950	observed
1937	13	2,317	observed
1938	14	2,225	observed
1939	9	2,922	observed
1940	16	2,029	observed
1941	16	2,096	observed
1942	8	3,444	observed
1943	18	2,079	observed
1944	15	2,287	observed
1945	9	3,132	observed
1946	8	3,665	observed
1947	15	2,637	observed
1948	14	2,701	observed
1949	12	2,999	observed
1950	15	2,652	observed
1951	9	3,714	observed
1952	10	3,552	observed
1953	6	5,040	observed
1954	10	3,718	observed
1955	14	3,095	observed
1956	5	5,952	observed
1957	11	3,696	observed
1958	no value	no value	not covered
1959	7	5,031	observed
1960	8	4,773	observed
1961	10	4,239	observed
1962	6	5,860	observed
1963	9	4,539	observed
1964	6	6,009	observed
1965	5	6,539	observed
1966	9	4,493	observed
1967	no value	no value	not covered
1968	no value	no value	not covered
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	no value	no value	not covered
1971	5	8,324	observed
1972	no value	no value	not covered
1973	no value	no value	not covered
1974	no value	no value	not covered
1975	no value	no value	not covered
1976	no value	no value	not covered
1977	no value	no value	not covered
1978	no value	no value	not covered
1979	8	7,313	observed
1980	no value	no value	not covered
1981	no value	no value	not covered
1982	7	8,224	observed
1983	no value	no value	not covered
1984	no value	no value	not covered
1985	no value	no value	not covered
1986	no value	no value	not covered
1987	no value	no value	not covered
1988	no value	no value	not covered
1989	no value	no value	not covered
1990	no value	no value	not covered
1991	no value	no value	not covered
1992	no value	no value	not covered
1993	no value	no value	not covered
1994	no value	no value	not covered
1995	no value	no value	not covered
1996	no value	no value	not covered
1997	no value	no value	not covered
1998	no value	no value	not covered
1999	no value	no value	not covered
2000	no value	no value	not covered
2001	no value	no value	not covered
2002	no value	no value	not covered
2003	no value	no value	not covered
2004	no value	no value	not covered
2005	no value	no value	not covered
2006	no value	no value	not covered
2007	no value	no value	not covered
2008	no value	no value	not covered
2009	no value	no value	not covered
2010	no value	no value	not covered
2011	no value	no value	not covered
2012	no value	no value	not covered
2013	no value	no value	not covered
2014	no value	no value	not covered
2015	no value	no value	not covered
2016	no value	no value	not covered
2017	no value	no value	not covered
2018	no value	no value	not covered
2019	no value	no value	not covered
2020	no value	no value	not covered
2021	no value	no value	not covered
2022	no value	no value	not covered
2023	no value	no value	not covered
2024	no value	no value	not covered
2025	no value	no value	not covered

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “Otelia” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure applications. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

04 / Through time

History

No historical attestations or sourced notable bearers are recorded yet. Historical databases are being evaluated for reuse permission; nothing is listed until a record can be cited.

A little story to keep

A name worth keeping.

Take the story of Otelia with you. Create a personal name passport with its meaning, roots and connections.

06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-17.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms2

Wikidata Q97011388CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: OteliaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates1

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

Opening name…

About Otelia

Otelia is a feminine given name documented in English and Norwegian Bokmål. English Wiktionary traces it to Latin Otilia.

Latin origin

Source-reported

Sources for this account (1)

Wiktionary: OteliaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Where Otelia is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Otelia’s connections around the world.

1 country with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Statistics + language records

United States, 1982: 7 girls (rank 8224). Documented as a given name in English.

Explore United States

4 of 11 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Otelia

Region and dataset

Recorded category girls

Latest · 1982: 7; applications; Rank #8,224
Peak year: 1923; 35 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Otelia in United States, girls: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	7	679	observed
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	5	908	observed
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	5	1,147	observed
1888	no value	no value	not covered
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	15	693	observed
1891	10	893	observed
1892	no value	no value	not covered
1893	6	1,277	observed
1894	7	1,237	observed
1895	10	1,053	observed
1896	9	1,122	observed
1897	14	867	observed
1898	7	1,379	observed
1899	5	1,596	observed
1900	17	917	observed
1901	7	1,339	observed
1902	13	972	observed
1903	9	1,204	observed
1904	16	910	observed
1905	20	825	observed
1906	12	1,101	observed
1907	25	749	observed
1908	11	1,261	observed
1909	16	1,015	observed
1910	15	1,171	observed
1911	17	1,071	observed
1912	28	960	observed
1913	19	1,308	observed
1914	17	1,603	observed
1915	22	1,571	observed
1916	25	1,485	observed
1917	31	1,307	observed
1918	28	1,497	observed
1919	33	1,348	observed
1920	23	1,751	observed
1921	27	1,625	observed
1922	24	1,730	observed
1923	35	1,327	observed
1924	29	1,566	observed
1925	32	1,443	observed
1926	18	2,076	observed
1927	19	2,026	observed
1928	24	1,680	observed
1929	18	1,953	observed
1930	18	1,934	observed
1931	19	1,803	observed
1932	20	1,754	observed
1933	21	1,658	observed
1934	12	2,424	observed
1935	21	1,663	observed
1936	16	1,950	observed
1937	13	2,317	observed
1938	14	2,225	observed
1939	9	2,922	observed
1940	16	2,029	observed
1941	16	2,096	observed
1942	8	3,444	observed
1943	18	2,079	observed
1944	15	2,287	observed
1945	9	3,132	observed
1946	8	3,665	observed
1947	15	2,637	observed
1948	14	2,701	observed
1949	12	2,999	observed
1950	15	2,652	observed
1951	9	3,714	observed
1952	10	3,552	observed
1953	6	5,040	observed
1954	10	3,718	observed
1955	14	3,095	observed
1956	5	5,952	observed
1957	11	3,696	observed
1958	no value	no value	not covered
1959	7	5,031	observed
1960	8	4,773	observed
1961	10	4,239	observed
1962	6	5,860	observed
1963	9	4,539	observed
1964	6	6,009	observed
1965	5	6,539	observed
1966	9	4,493	observed
1967	no value	no value	not covered
1968	no value	no value	not covered
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	no value	no value	not covered
1971	5	8,324	observed
1972	no value	no value	not covered
1973	no value	no value	not covered
1974	no value	no value	not covered
1975	no value	no value	not covered
1976	no value	no value	not covered
1977	no value	no value	not covered
1978	no value	no value	not covered
1979	8	7,313	observed
1980	no value	no value	not covered
1981	no value	no value	not covered
1982	7	8,224	observed
1983	no value	no value	not covered
1984	no value	no value	not covered
1985	no value	no value	not covered
1986	no value	no value	not covered
1987	no value	no value	not covered
1988	no value	no value	not covered
1989	no value	no value	not covered
1990	no value	no value	not covered
1991	no value	no value	not covered
1992	no value	no value	not covered
1993	no value	no value	not covered
1994	no value	no value	not covered
1995	no value	no value	not covered
1996	no value	no value	not covered
1997	no value	no value	not covered
1998	no value	no value	not covered
1999	no value	no value	not covered
2000	no value	no value	not covered
2001	no value	no value	not covered
2002	no value	no value	not covered
2003	no value	no value	not covered
2004	no value	no value	not covered
2005	no value	no value	not covered
2006	no value	no value	not covered
2007	no value	no value	not covered
2008	no value	no value	not covered
2009	no value	no value	not covered
2010	no value	no value	not covered
2011	no value	no value	not covered
2012	no value	no value	not covered
2013	no value	no value	not covered
2014	no value	no value	not covered
2015	no value	no value	not covered
2016	no value	no value	not covered
2017	no value	no value	not covered
2018	no value	no value	not covered
2019	no value	no value	not covered
2020	no value	no value	not covered
2021	no value	no value	not covered
2022	no value	no value	not covered
2023	no value	no value	not covered
2024	no value	no value	not covered
2025	no value	no value	not covered

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-17.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms2

Wikidata Q97011388CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: OteliaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates1

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

A story to pass on.

About Otelia

Latin origin

Where Otelia is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

Ottilie

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Otelia

Latin origin

Where Otelia is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

Ottilie

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page