Odhran

#13,362 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Odhran has been given to 36 babies in the U.S. since 2020. In 2025 it ranked #13,362 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Odhran, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Odhran?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,362
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Odhran 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Odhran. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Odhrans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Odhran was born before 2022 — so the typical Odhran is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
36
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2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (36).

Is Odhran 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
−1,414
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+151
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
71.4%
Peak was 2022 (7)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,502
2023

Spellings of Odhran

Odhran is not the most common spelling — Oran is, with 45.4% against Odhran's 0.37%.

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.

Odhran around the world

Where Odhran 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
    #1,307
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2003–2025
    #316
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2025
    #55
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1971–2025
    #93
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and Central Statistics Office. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0.

Odhran by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,362
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 151
Best rank ever
#10,502
2023
Peak year
2022
7 that year
First recorded
2020
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
36
Count in 2025
5

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Sibling names for Odhran

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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