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Oden

#2,033 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Odin

Oden has been given to 1,574 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #2,033 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 102 recorded.

Babies named Oden, 2025

1 in 44,800

Oden over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Oden: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Odin

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Oden means

Oden is a form of Odin.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Oden → Odin. The family’s meaning is “frenzied, furious, inspired”, recorded in the naming reference for Odin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Odin.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,574 boys were recorded with the name Oden between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 102 in 2022; its best national rank was #1,691 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,844 in 2020 to #2,033 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,012 in 2015 to #2,033 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Oden?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 44,800
74 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 23,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,033
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
31,054 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Oden sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 31,054 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Oden. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Odens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Oden was born before 2016 — so the typical Oden is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
41.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,395
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Choose a decade

2010s — 41.5% of all recorded uses (653).

Is Oden rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+194
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−189
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−21
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.03×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
72.5%
Peak was 2022 (102)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,691
2022

Spellings of Oden

Oden is not the most common spelling — Aiden is, with 12.7% against Oden's 0.08%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Oden is used

Across 2016–2025, Oden was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 36,229 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

19 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 11,111
  2. 2Wisconsin1 in 14,286
  3. 3Indiana1 in 20,000
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 25,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 25,000
  6. 6California1 in 33,333
  7. 7Missouri1 in 33,333
  8. 8Ohio1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Oden around the world

Where Oden ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • France
    2014–2025
    #2,782
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #2,134
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2004–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Oden by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,033
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 189
Best rank ever
#1,691
2022
Peak year
2022
102 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,574
Count in 2025
74

Names similar to Oden

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Oden

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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