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Odetta

Girls' name

Latinate form of Odette

Odetta has been given to 628 babies in the U.S. since 1900. 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 1922, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Odetta, 2024

1 in 669,000

Odetta over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Odetta: meaning, origin, and history

Latinate form of Odette

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Odetta means

Odetta is a latinate form of Odette.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Odetta is used in English (Rare).

Origin, language, and formation

Odetta is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Odette.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 628 girls were recorded with the name Odetta between 1900 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1922; its best national rank was #1,823 in 1933.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Odetta?

Odetta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Odetta sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Odetta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Odettas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Odetta was born before 1933 — so the typical Odetta is around 92 today.

Median birth year
1933
About 92 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
22.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
237
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1920s — 22.3% of all recorded uses (140).

Is Odetta 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1922 (22)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
51.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,823
1933

Spellings of Odetta

Odetta is not the most common spelling — Loretta is, with 51.8% against Odetta's 0.18%.

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 Odetta is used

Across 1910–2025, Odetta was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 762,839 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 33,333
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Odetta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Odetta around the world

Where Odetta 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
    2016–2017
    #4,763
    in 2017
  • France
    1932–1932
    #1,028
    in 1932
  • South Australia
    1997–1997
    #681
    in 1997

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

Odetta by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,823
1933
Peak year
1922
22 that year
First recorded
1900
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
628
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Odetta

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

OdellaRhettaOdeliaOdelleAlettaOlettaOdetteAriettaOdessiaOdessieLarettaRenattaLucettaLettaOdeszaLovettaOdeanNettaAnettaYittaOdealLeettaSuettaYvetta

Sibling names for Odetta

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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