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Odette

#883 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Oda

Odette has been given to 4,239 babies in the U.S. since 1894. In 2025 it ranked #883 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 303 recorded.

Babies named Odette, 2025

1 in 10,900

Odette over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Odette: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Oda

French

What Odette means

Odette is a diminutive of Oda.

Origin, language, and formation

Odette is used in English and French. Its origins include French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Oda.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Odette is pronounced /ɔ.dɛt/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,239 girls were recorded with the name Odette between 1894 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 303 in 2025; its best national rank was #843 in 1905.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,481 in 2020 to #883 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,188 in 2015 to #883 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Odette?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 10,900
303 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 5,300
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#883
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
7,585 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Odette 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 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 7,585 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Odette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Odettes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Odette was born before 2002 — so the typical Odette is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
27.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
51.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,301
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 27.3% of all recorded uses (1,156).

Is Odette 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
+333
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+598
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,305
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.48×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (303)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#843
1905

Spellings of Odette

Odette is not the most common spelling — Yvette is, with 36.1% against Odette's 2.4%.

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 Odette is used

Across 2016–2025, Odette was most concentrated in Oregon — about 1 in 3,448 girls, against 1 in 10,313 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 50,000).

229 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oregon1 in 3,448
  2. 2Arizona1 in 5,000
  3. 3Colorado1 in 5,000
  4. 4Wisconsin1 in 6,250
  5. 5Washington1 in 6,667
  6. 6California1 in 7,692
  7. 7Nevada1 in 8,333
  8. 8Illinois1 in 9,091

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.

Odette around the world

Where Odette 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
    1996–2025
    #872
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1975–2023
    #540
    in 2023
  • Northern Ireland
    2023–2023
    #391
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    1969–2024
    #898
    in 2024
  • France
    1900–2025
    #3,663
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #1,709
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1953–2011
    #840
    in 2011

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

Notable people named Odette

People whose public names include Odette, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Odette in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Odette. Linked forms have their own page here.

OdeOdettOdetta

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Odette by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#883
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 598
Best rank ever
#843
1905
Peak year
2025
303 that year
First recorded
1894
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,239
Count in 2025
303

Names similar to Odette

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

OdeliaOdessaEvetteOdellaAnetteLinetteOdellIvetteBabetteCosetteJosetteArletteLisetteDanetteCozetteLizetteBrigetteOdettaVioletteBretteJoetteElietteLissetteCollette

Names with a curve like Odette

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Odette, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ViolettaRosalinaSalomeAuraIveyMapleEvelinaRosaliaAlitaPerryLoveArlette

Sibling names for Odette

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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