Odell
Odell was given to 23 boys in 2025, #4,494 among boys’ names; 19,034 Americans have been recorded with it since 1883 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,820 Americans named Odell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (31% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 47 and 77.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Odell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Odell mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Odell is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Odell?
#4,494 among boys’ names, 2025
Odell rose from #4,507 in 2015 to #4,494 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 11.5 to 13.5 per million.
534 babies in 1922, the peak
Odell peaked in 1922, when 534 babies were given it (367 boys, #296 among boys’ names). The 23 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 23 | #4,494 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 22 | #4,662 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 25 | #4,302 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 21 | #4,805 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 31 | #3,624 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 31 | #3,544 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 27 | #3,965 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 35 | #3,281 | |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,769 | 42 | #2,875 |
| 2016 | under 5 | 30 | #3,656 |
Every recorded year (138)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 22 | #4,507 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 21 | #4,653 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 18 | #5,112 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 15 | #5,901 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 14 | #6,156 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 14 | #6,277 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 13 | #6,708 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 23 | #4,351 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 22 | #4,461 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 23 | #4,185 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 17 | #4,966 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 19 | #4,546 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 19 | #4,379 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 23 | #3,740 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 20 | #4,067 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 19 | #4,163 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 28 | #3,000 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 26 | #3,065 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 26 | #2,954 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 33 | #2,410 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 31 | #2,477 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 39 | #2,105 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 39 | #2,070 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 45 | #1,827 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 53 | #1,600 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 49 | #1,676 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 45 | #1,722 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 40 | #1,756 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 42 | #1,645 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 43 | #1,553 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 49 | #1,406 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 44 | #1,454 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 60 | #1,176 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 62 | #1,174 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 61 | #1,185 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 59 | #1,199 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 58 | #1,204 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 57 | #1,182 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 61 | #1,116 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 57 | #1,139 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 61 | #1,077 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 62 | #1,050 | |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,197 | 85 | #864 |
| 1972 | under 5 | 92 | #840 | |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,132 | 92 | #854 |
| 1970 | under 5 | 101 | #808 | |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,305 | 80 | #860 |
| 1968 | under 5 | 109 | #722 | |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,311 | 86 | #790 |
| 1966 | under 5 | 80 | #816 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 89 | #788 | |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,332 | 109 | #739 |
| 1963 | 22 | #2,678 | 90 | #802 |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,391 | 113 | #723 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,687 | 122 | #691 |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,060 | 141 | #659 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,572 | 135 | #660 |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,937 | 162 | #604 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,440 | 169 | #590 |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,138 | 156 | #606 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,928 | 189 | #536 |
| 1954 | 22 | #2,353 | 175 | #551 |
| 1953 | 32 | #1,772 | 196 | #499 |
| 1952 | 30 | #1,847 | 200 | #498 |
| 1951 | 25 | #2,006 | 193 | #488 |
| 1950 | 21 | #2,168 | 194 | #478 |
| 1949 | 35 | #1,587 | 221 | #447 |
| 1948 | 28 | #1,810 | 222 | #447 |
| 1947 | 27 | #1,889 | 226 | #446 |
| 1946 | 32 | #1,577 | 210 | #437 |
| 1945 | 31 | #1,472 | 205 | #419 |
| 1944 | 44 | #1,196 | 198 | #433 |
| 1943 | 26 | #1,691 | 221 | #417 |
| 1942 | 39 | #1,294 | 205 | #427 |
| 1941 | 36 | #1,286 | 197 | #416 |
| 1940 | 35 | #1,266 | 208 | #397 |
| 1939 | 42 | #1,123 | 213 | #387 |
| 1938 | 33 | #1,284 | 235 | #364 |
| 1937 | 48 | #1,028 | 213 | #379 |
| 1936 | 47 | #1,021 | 218 | #368 |
| 1935 | 71 | #810 | 250 | #349 |
| 1934 | 57 | #914 | 256 | #342 |
| 1933 | 65 | #832 | 242 | #347 |
| 1932 | 84 | #738 | 300 | #319 |
| 1931 | 79 | #756 | 265 | #333 |
| 1930 | 98 | #698 | 267 | #345 |
| 1929 | 103 | #693 | 292 | #324 |
| 1928 | 95 | #729 | 274 | #346 |
| 1927 | 114 | #681 | 300 | #330 |
| 1926 | 125 | #645 | 252 | #367 |
| 1925 | 146 | #601 | 313 | #323 |
| 1924 | 143 | #629 | 281 | #355 |
| 1923 | 150 | #591 | 296 | #338 |
| 1922 | 167 | #551 | 367 | #296 |
| 1921 | 171 | #542 | 324 | #326 |
| 1920 | 156 | #575 | 336 | #313 |
| 1919 | 151 | #563 | 305 | #318 |
| 1918 | 132 | #617 | 253 | #368 |
| 1917 | 150 | #549 | 259 | #345 |
| 1916 | 158 | #523 | 237 | #349 |
| 1915 | 125 | #582 | 237 | #347 |
| 1914 | 122 | #506 | 180 | #348 |
| 1913 | 86 | #555 | 131 | #364 |
| 1912 | 79 | #551 | 112 | #367 |
| 1911 | 62 | #533 | 76 | #310 |
| 1910 | 72 | #478 | 57 | #326 |
| 1909 | 52 | #527 | 49 | #331 |
| 1908 | 45 | #559 | 52 | #305 |
| 1907 | 44 | #551 | 38 | #363 |
| 1906 | 43 | #538 | 48 | #296 |
| 1905 | 32 | #630 | 30 | #388 |
| 1904 | 29 | #650 | 34 | #347 |
| 1903 | 14 | #961 | 30 | #356 |
| 1902 | 19 | #813 | 30 | #364 |
| 1901 | 16 | #849 | 19 | #447 |
| 1900 | 29 | #671 | 29 | #422 |
| 1899 | 10 | #1,082 | 12 | #604 |
| 1898 | 12 | #1,035 | 10 | #730 |
| 1897 | 11 | #1,020 | 13 | #607 |
| 1896 | 13 | #939 | under 5 | |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,753 | 7 | #951 |
| 1894 | under 5 | 7 | #928 | |
| 1892 | 10 | #1,000 | 6 | #1,041 |
| 1890 | under 5 | 9 | #722 | |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,107 | 7 | #863 |
| 1888 | under 5 | 7 | #891 | |
| 1884 | under 5 | 7 | #825 | |
| 1883 | under 5 | 8 | #706 |
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 Odell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 19,034 Americans recorded as Odell, 22% are girls and 78% boys. Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Odell every year since 1911. In 2025 it went to 23 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Odell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Odell, and how old are they?
5,820 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 31% of the 19,034 Americans ever recorded as Odell. The median Odell alive today is 66 years old; half are between 47 and 77.
The 2020 Census counted 4,966 people named Odell (652 women and girls, 4,314 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,052 born in the U.S. The Census count is 30% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 992 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,350 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,100 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 697 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 315 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 350 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Odell born?
The states with the most babies named Odell are North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas, with 38% of its births recorded by state since 1910; South Carolina is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 2,006 | not ranked | 3.4× |
| South Carolina | 1,579 | not ranked | 4.5× |
| Texas | 1,551 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Mississippi | 1,321 | not ranked | 3.8× |
| Alabama | 1,069 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Arkansas | 1,025 | not ranked | 3.5× |
| Tennessee | 980 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Georgia | 875 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Virginia | 622 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Louisiana | 550 | not ranked | 1.5× |
Where Odell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Odell is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1910 it was given 4.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Odell with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 19,220 babies since 1880, Odell is the most given (99% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 23 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Odell
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 Odell and names like it
- Compare Odell and OdelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sOdell peaked in 1922.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Odell since 1910.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Odell.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Odell alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with OMost given first.