Odell — #4563 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Odell

The Social Security Administration has registered 14,860 babies named Odell between 1883 and 2024, spanning 142 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Odell currently holds the #4563 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1922, when 367 babies received it in a single year. Odell is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 4,151 additional births since 1889.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Odell performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 3,035 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Odell shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 1,613 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by South Carolina and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Odell in 26 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Odell 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 14,860 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.