Odetta
Odetta was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 628 Americans have been recorded with it between 1900 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Odetta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Odetta mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Odetta is “a female given name, variant of Odette.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Odetta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,047, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 1922, the peak
Odetta peaked in 1922, when 22 girls were given it, #1,879 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #17,047 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,128 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,870 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,642 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,198 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,056 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,893 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,979 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,409 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,499 | 4.9 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | 12 | #3,989 | 7.3 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,762 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,310 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,641 | 7.4 |
| 1963 | 18 | #3,039 | 9.3 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,777 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,557 | 6.9 |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,171 | 7.9 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,947 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,889 | 2.9 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,469 | 2.6 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,551 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,486 | 4.3 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,176 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,705 | 3.9 |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,179 | 7.0 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,818 | 2.9 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,823 | 3.8 |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,064 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,426 | 6.5 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,484 | 6.6 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,764 | 4.6 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,879 | 9.1 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,146 | 5.6 |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,035 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,881 | 9.5 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,708 | 6.7 |
| 1933 | 19 | #1,823 | 18.9 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,819 | 6.6 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,161 | 8.5 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,391 | 12.4 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,323 | 8.1 |
| 1928 | 7 | #4,079 | 6.1 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,781 | 6.7 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,440 | 12.7 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,358 | 13.1 |
| 1924 | 21 | #1,978 | 16.8 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,435 | 12.4 |
| 1922 | 22 | #1,879 | 18.3 |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,600 | 11.4 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,693 | 10.8 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,471 | 12.4 |
| 1918 | 16 | #2,265 | 13.8 |
| 1917 | 19 | #1,900 | 17.6 |
| 1916 | 16 | #2,101 | 15.3 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,652 | 11.2 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,226 | 14.4 |
| 1913 | 10 | #2,129 | 16.0 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,312 | 9.0 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,913 | 19.1 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,297 | 15.7 |
| 1904 | 5 | #2,091 | 18.2 |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,143 | 16.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Odetta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Odetta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Odetta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Odetta, and how old are they?
An estimated 245 Americans named Odetta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (39% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 56 and 73. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 391 people named Odetta (391 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 278 born in the U.S. The Census count is 41% 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.
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 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,867 babies since 1880, Odetta is the second most given (13% of them). In 2025 none of their 303 babies recorded by SSA was a Odetta (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Odetta
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 Odetta and names like it
- Compare Odetta and OdetteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sOdetta peaked in 1922.
- Hawaii’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Odetta since 1910.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Odetta.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Odetta alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with OMost given first.