Oden
Oden was given to 74 boys in 2025, #2,033 among boys’ names; 1,574 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,390 Americans named Oden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Oden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Oden?
#2,033 among boys’ names, 2025
Oden fell from #2,012 in 2015 to #2,033 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 37.6 to 43.3 per million.
102 babies in 2022, the peak
Oden peaked in 2022, when 102 boys were given it, #1,691 among boys’ names. The 74 births of 2025 are 73% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 74 | #2,033 | 43.3 |
| 2024 | 65 | #2,227 | 37.7 |
| 2023 | 90 | #1,800 | 52.6 |
| 2022 | 102 | #1,691 | 58.4 |
| 2021 | 91 | #1,768 | 52.0 |
| 2020 | 81 | #1,844 | 46.9 |
| 2019 | 82 | #1,847 | 45.7 |
| 2018 | 69 | #2,074 | 38.0 |
| 2017 | 76 | #1,909 | 41.1 |
| 2016 | 89 | #1,750 | 46.9 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 72 | #2,012 | 37.6 |
| 2014 | 71 | #2,012 | 37.0 |
| 2013 | 58 | #2,244 | 30.7 |
| 2012 | 50 | #2,511 | 26.4 |
| 2011 | 42 | #2,836 | 22.1 |
| 2010 | 44 | #2,772 | 22.9 |
| 2009 | 32 | #3,453 | 16.1 |
| 2008 | 48 | #2,616 | 23.5 |
| 2007 | 37 | #3,118 | 17.8 |
| 2006 | 18 | #5,002 | 8.8 |
| 2005 | 24 | #3,903 | 12.0 |
| 2004 | 23 | #3,963 | 11.6 |
| 2003 | 21 | #4,068 | 10.6 |
| 2002 | 14 | #5,313 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,818 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,969 | 3.1 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,761 | 3.4 |
| 1953 | 5 | #4,198 | 2.5 |
| 1947 | 6 | #3,640 | 3.3 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,770 | 3.7 |
| 1938 | 8 | #2,801 | 7.2 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,922 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 8 | #2,925 | 8.1 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,500 | 6.4 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,284 | 7.2 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,070 | 5.3 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,386 | 11.7 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,076 | 8.1 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,187 | 7.9 |
| 1923 | 7 | #3,713 | 6.4 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,181 | 5.5 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,149 | 8.2 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,724 | 6.6 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,054 | 9.2 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,293 | 7.9 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,128 | 8.6 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,414 | 7.9 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,569 | 11.8 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,837 | 19.9 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,709 | 11.7 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,799 | 11.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Oden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Oden has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Oden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Oden, and how old are they?
1,390 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 1,574 Americans ever recorded as Oden. The median Oden alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 1,020 people named Oden (12 women and girls, 1,008 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 921 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 6 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 6 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 360 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,010 |
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 Oden born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 9 | #1,785 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,216 | 0.3× |
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 Oden 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 15,302 babies since 1880, Oden is the second most given (10% of them). In 2025 it was given to 74 of their 708 babies (10%), again the second 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 Oden
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 Oden and names like it
- Compare Oden and OdinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sOden peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Oden since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Oden.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Oden alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with OMost given first.