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Odes

Boys' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Odes has been given to 367 babies in the U.S. since 1888. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1923, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Odes, 1955

1 in 803,000

Odes 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Odes: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Odes means

Odes is a given name.

The naming story behind Odes

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Odes in its glossary. The entry labels it masculine and points to printed page(s) 376.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “It. Teu. rich”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Odes, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 367 boys were recorded with the name Odes between 1888 and 1955. Its highest annual count was 23 in 1923; its best national rank was #1,133 in 1888.

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 Odes?

Odes had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1955, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1955
1 in 803,000
5 of 4,014,099 births
Among boys only
1 in 412,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1955
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
556,473 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Odes 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 1955 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 556,473 children born in 1955 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Odes. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Odess were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Odes was born before 1924 — so the typical Odes is around 101 today.

Median birth year
1924
About 101 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
40.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
29.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
16
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Choose a decade

1920s — 40.1% of all recorded uses (147).

Is Odes 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1923 (23)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,133
1888

Spellings of Odes

Odes is not the most common spelling — Owen is, with 46.0% against Odes's 0.07%.

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 Odes is used

Across 1910–2025, Odes was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,288,265 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in —
  2. 2Tennessee1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

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. Odes has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Odes by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,133
1888
Peak year
1923
23 that year
First recorded
1888
Last recorded
1955
All-time count
367
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Odes

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

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Sibling names for Odes

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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