Oda — unisex name

What the Data Says About Oda

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,324 babies named Oda between 1880 and 1962, spanning 83 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Oda currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1962. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 43 babies received it in a single year. Oda is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 301 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Oda performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 300 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Oda shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kentucky, which accounts for 64 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Alabama. In total, SSA state-level files list Oda in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Oda in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,324 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.