Ottoline
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- OT-uh-leen
- Origin
- Germanic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,101 for girls
Ottoline is a girls' name of Germanic origin, meaning “prosperous”. In 2025 it ranked 3,101st for girls in the UK (8 babies).
What does Ottoline mean?
Germanic: diminutive of Otto or Ottilie
“prosperous”
Lady Ottoline Morrell was a celebrated English hostess and patron of the Bloomsbury Group.
More on Wiktionary.
Is Ottoline a girl's or a boy's name?
Ottoline is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ottoline in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,101st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 35,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 37% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the UK were named Ottoline, making it the 3,101st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,630th.
2025 had the most girls named Ottoline of any year since it first appeared, in 2008.
Half of all the girls named Ottoline in the UK since 1996 were born between 2014 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,033rd in England and Wales.
Ottoline in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #3,101 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 5 | #4,168 |
| 2021 | 5 | #4,148 |
| 2020 | 6 | #3,630 |
| 2019 | 6 | #3,738 |
| 2018 | 7 | #3,344 |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 6 | #3,788 |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 6 | #3,702 |
| 2013 | 6 | #3,719 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 4 | #4,931 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
Names like Ottoline
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ottilie, Olive, Elodie, Adeline, Lottie, Florence, Penelope, Beatrice, Matilda, Ada, Clementine, Elsie
More Germanic names
Amelia, Liam, Henry, Charlotte, William, Archie, Charlie, Emma, Freddie, Ella, Harry, Millie, Albie, Louie, Miles, Alice
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Ottoline: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ottoline, updated 20 October 2026.