Odilon

Boys' name

Form of Odilo

Odilon has been given to 132 babies in the U.S. since 1925. 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 1988, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Odilon, 2024

1 in 669,000

Odilon over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Odilon: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Odilo

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Odilon means

Odilon is a form of Odilo.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Odilon is used in French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Odilo.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 132 boys were recorded with the name Odilon between 1925 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1988; its best national rank was #3,644 in 1945.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Odilon?

Odilon 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 boys only: 1 in 345,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 463,412 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Odilon 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 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 Odilon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Odilons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Odilon was born before 1992 — so the typical Odilon is around 33 today.

Median birth year: 1992; About 33 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 34.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 21.2%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 122; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 34.1% of all recorded uses (45).

Is Odilon 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: —; 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 1988 (8)
Years since peak: 37; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 16.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,644; 1945

Spellings of Odilon

Odilon is not the most common spelling — Dillon is, with 43.2% against Odilon's 0.09%.

Dillon43.2%65,225
Orion15.3%23,120
Dion12.5%18,914
Odin8.8%13,282
Edison8.3%12,522
Dilan4.0%6,034
Dylon3.0%4,517
Dixon2.0%3,079

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 Odilon is used

Across 1910–2025, Odilon was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 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. Odilon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Odilon around the world

Where Odilon 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.

France
1900–2025
#3,415
in 2025

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Odilon by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #3,644; 1945
Peak year: 1988; 8 that year
First recorded: 1925
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 132
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Odilon

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

Odinn Khylon Taelon Callon Avalon Kailon Khalon Kellon Maylon Baylon Odies Zylon Bralon Shalon Keylon Draylon Xylon Zaylon Trelon Jahlon Quaylon Traylon Brylon Merlon

Sibling names for Odilon

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Cody Kandace Alyse Whitley Shantell Stephani Ashli Ashlie

For a brother

Darell Elizabeth Kelsey Garrick Derik Chaz Lauren Derrell

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