Oda
Oda was last recorded in 1962, when 5 babies were given it; 1,625 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Oda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Oda mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Oda is “a female given name in German.”
Borrowed from German Oda.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Oda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #7,274, in 1962; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
52 babies in 1918, the peak
Oda peaked in 1918, when 52 babies were given it (43 girls, #1,147 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 5 | #7,274 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 7 | #3,439 | |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,175 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,257 | under 5 | |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,221 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,243 | under 5 | |
| 1945 | 10 | #3,070 | under 5 | |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,093 | 6 | #3,457 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,764 | under 5 | |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,481 | 5 | #3,865 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 11 | #2,689 | under 5 | |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,697 | 7 | #3,036 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,415 | 5 | #3,893 |
| 1937 | under 5 | 8 | #2,831 | |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,650 | under 5 | |
| 1935 | 16 | #2,076 | 7 | #3,169 |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,089 | 5 | #4,058 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,822 | 10 | #2,494 |
| 1932 | 22 | #1,668 | 5 | #4,140 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,534 | 6 | #3,651 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,390 | 9 | #2,942 |
| 1929 | 23 | #1,694 | 5 | #4,381 |
| 1928 | 23 | #1,763 | 8 | #3,283 |
| 1927 | 23 | #1,808 | 6 | #4,069 |
| 1926 | 28 | #1,579 | 11 | #2,677 |
| 1925 | 28 | #1,596 | 13 | #2,393 |
| 1924 | 43 | #1,220 | 7 | #3,750 |
| 1923 | 24 | #1,766 | 12 | #2,558 |
| 1922 | 32 | #1,454 | 13 | #2,443 |
| 1921 | 37 | #1,289 | 13 | #2,470 |
| 1920 | 39 | #1,240 | 10 | #2,902 |
| 1919 | 39 | #1,207 | 10 | #2,813 |
| 1918 | 43 | #1,147 | 9 | #3,035 |
| 1917 | 24 | #1,589 | 10 | #2,669 |
| 1916 | 33 | #1,267 | 13 | #2,227 |
| 1915 | 30 | #1,308 | 10 | #2,568 |
| 1914 | 23 | #1,333 | 11 | #2,067 |
| 1913 | 19 | #1,343 | 6 | #2,708 |
| 1912 | 33 | #886 | 6 | #2,475 |
| 1911 | 25 | #868 | under 5 | |
| 1910 | 22 | #934 | 7 | #1,386 |
| 1909 | 26 | #810 | under 5 | |
| 1908 | 17 | #998 | under 5 | |
| 1907 | 14 | #1,078 | under 5 | |
| 1906 | 23 | #773 | under 5 | |
| 1905 | 13 | #1,086 | under 5 | |
| 1904 | 25 | #707 | under 5 | |
| 1903 | 24 | #687 | under 5 | |
| 1902 | 28 | #638 | 5 | #1,258 |
| 1901 | 22 | #697 | under 5 | |
| 1900 | 22 | #794 | 6 | #1,271 |
| 1899 | 23 | #659 | under 5 | |
| 1898 | 18 | #812 | under 5 | |
| 1897 | 26 | #613 | under 5 | |
| 1896 | 23 | #667 | 5 | #1,217 |
| 1895 | 25 | #618 | under 5 | |
| 1894 | 26 | #582 | 6 | #1,044 |
| 1893 | 19 | #683 | under 5 | |
| 1892 | 19 | #677 | under 5 | |
| 1891 | 18 | #638 | under 5 | |
| 1890 | 15 | #712 | under 5 | |
| 1889 | 26 | #498 | under 5 | |
| 1888 | 12 | #783 | under 5 | |
| 1887 | 12 | #683 | under 5 | |
| 1886 | 7 | #967 | under 5 | |
| 1885 | 10 | #730 | under 5 | |
| 1884 | 11 | #671 | 6 | #937 |
| 1883 | 11 | #606 | under 5 | |
| 1882 | 6 | #875 | under 5 | |
| 1881 | 9 | #614 | 7 | #756 |
| 1880 | 9 | #619 | 6 | #884 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Oda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,625 Americans recorded as Oda, 81% are girls and 19% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Oda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Oda, and how old are they?
An estimated 91 Americans named Oda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 322 people named Oda (212 women and girls, 110 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 165 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 6,586 babies since 1880, Oda is the second most given (25% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Oda
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Oda and names like it
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- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Oda.
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