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Odile

Girls' name

Form of Odilia

Odile has been given to 788 babies in the U.S. since 1882. 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 1915, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Odile, 2018

1 in 586,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Odile: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Odilia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Odile means

Odile is a form of Odilia.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Odile is used in French.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ɔ.dil/ for Odile.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Odile → Odilia. The family’s meaning is “heritage or wealth, fortune”, recorded in the naming reference for Odilia.

Origin, language, and formation

Odile comes through frk *aud.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Odilia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Odile is pronounced /ɔ.dil/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 788 girls were recorded with the name Odile between 1882 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 27 in 1915; its best national rank was #739 in 1898.

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 Odile?

Odile had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 586,000
6 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only
1 in 283,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
406,284 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Odile 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 2018 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 406,284 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Odile. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Odiles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Odile was born before 1915 — so the typical Odile is around 110 today.

Median birth year
1915
About 110 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
22.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.76%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
50
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1910s — 22.7% of all recorded uses (179).

Is Odile 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 1915 (27)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#739
1898

Spellings of Odile

Odile is not the most common spelling — Olive is, with 34.5% against Odile's 0.41%.

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 Odile is used

Across 1910–2025, Odile was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 24,549 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 11,111
  2. 2Massachusetts1 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. Odile has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Odile around the world

Where Odile 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
    2007–2010
    #5,707
    in 2010
  • France
    1900–2025
    #2,898
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,854
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Odile 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
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Best rank ever
#739
1898
Peak year
1915
27 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
788
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Odile

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

OdiliaCamileYamileHaileKaileGaileEmileOdieNileMaileOdisAprileLileMarcileKamileJamileAzileVoncileEtoileAbigaileOdiaCecileKamaileNeile

Sibling names for Odile

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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