Odean — unisex name

What the Data Says About Odean

The Social Security Administration has registered 377 babies named Odean between 1914 and 1960, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Odean currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1960. The name reached its historical peak in 1922, when 24 babies received it in a single year. Odean is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 351 additional births since 1915.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Odean performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 160 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Odean shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Arkansas, which accounts for 19 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Alabama and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Odean in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Odean 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 377 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.