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Odie

#5,545 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Diminutive of Odell or Odele or Odette

Odie has been given to 4,212 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #5,545 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1918, with 62 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 62% boys, 38% girls all-time.

Babies named Odie, 2025

1 in 195,000

Odie over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Odie over time

In 2025, Odie went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

18802025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Odie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Odell or Odele or Odette

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Odie means

Odie is a diminutive of Odell or Odele or Odette.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Separate origins as diminutives of British name Odell and Germanic name Odin; later used as nickname for additional given names.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Odie (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Odie is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Odell, Odele and Odette.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,623 boys were recorded with the name Odie between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 62 in 1918; its best national rank was #432 in 1899.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,294 in 2020 to #5,545 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,704 in 2015 to #5,545 in 2025.

In the United States, 1,589 girls were recorded with the name Odie between 1881 and 1963. Its highest annual count was 56 in 1916; its best national rank was #510 in 1883.

How common is Odie?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,545
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Odie 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Odie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Odies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Odie was born before 1930 — so the typical Odie is around 95 today.

Median birth year
1930
About 95 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
18.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
681
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 18.7% of all recorded uses (491).

Is Odie 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
+4,073
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,749
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+6,159
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.83×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
27.4%
Peak was 1918 (62)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#432
1899

Spellings of Odie

Odie is not the most common spelling — Eddie is, with 43.3% against Odie's 0.54%.

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 Odie is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Odie was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 40,075 across all states with data. It was least common in Louisiana (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 10,000
  2. 2Tennessee1 in 20,000
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 25,000
  4. 4Alabama1 in 50,000
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 50,000
  6. 6Kentucky1 in 100,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 100,000
  8. 8Louisiana1 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. Odie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Odie is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Odie was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 100,155 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 25,000
  2. 2Arkansas1 in 33,333
  3. 3Alabama1 in 50,000
  4. 4Tennessee1 in 100,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 100,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in —
  7. 7Kentucky1 in —
  8. 8Louisiana1 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. Odie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Odie around the world

Where Odie 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
    2017–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Notable people named Odie

People whose public names include Odie, 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.

Odie by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,545
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,749
Best rank ever
#432
1899
Peak year
1918
62 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,623
Count in 2025
17

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#510
1883
Peak year
1916
56 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
1963
All-time count
1,589
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Odie

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

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Names with a curve like Odie

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

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Sibling names for Odie

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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