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Odin

#502 in 2025Boys' name

Frenzied, furious, inspired

Odin has been given to 13,282 babies in the U.S. since 1884. In 2025 it ranked #502 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 1,023 recorded.

Babies named Odin, 2025

1 in 5,490

Odin over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05001K1.5K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Odin: meaning, origin, and history

Frenzied, furious, inspired

Old Norse

What Odin means

Odin means “frenzied, furious, inspired”.

Origin, language, and formation

Odin is used in Norwegian Nynorsk. Its origins include Old Norse.

Odin comes through Old Norse Auðunn.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 13,282 boys were recorded with the name Odin between 1884 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 1,023 in 2022; its best national rank was #327 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #331 in 2020 to #502 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #447 in 2015 to #502 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 Odin?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 5,490
604 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 2,830
0.04% of boys
Rank, 2025
#502
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
3,806 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Odin 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 1002%
School of 5009%

Put another way: gather 3,806 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Odin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Odins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Odin was born before 2018 — so the typical Odin is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
48.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
13,089
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 48.4% of all recorded uses (6,435).

Is Odin 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
−24
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−171
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−55
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.88×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
59.0%
Peak was 2022 (1,023)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#327
2021

Spellings of Odin

Odin is not the most common spelling — Edwin is, with 18.1% against Odin's 0.97%.

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 Odin is used

Across 2016–2025, Odin was most concentrated in Alaska — about 1 in 392 boys, against 1 in 1,746 across all states with data. It was least common in Rhode Island (1 in 6,667).

15255 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alaska1 in 392
  2. 2North Dakota1 in 426
  3. 3Maine1 in 429
  4. 4South Dakota1 in 437
  5. 5Minnesota1 in 538
  6. 6New Hampshire1 in 538
  7. 7Montana1 in 633
  8. 8Oregon1 in 781

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.

Geographically, Odin is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 79% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Odin around the world

Where Odin 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
    #462
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2006–2025
    #174
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2014–2025
    #237
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1998–2025
    #402
    in 2025
  • France
    1981–2025
    #1,519
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #30
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #404
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1992–2013
    #499
    in 2013

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 Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, 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 Odin

People whose public names include Odin, 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.

Odin in other languages

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

Óðinn

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

Odin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#502
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 171
Best rank ever
#327
2021
Peak year
2022
1,023 that year
First recorded
1884
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
13,282
Count in 2025
604

Names similar to Odin

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

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Names with a curve like Odin

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

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Sibling names for Odin

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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