Odette
Odette was given to 303 girls in 2025, #883 among girls’ names; 4,239 Americans have been recorded with it since 1894 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,290 Americans named Odette and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (78% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 4 and 45.
Odette climbed 333 places in 2025, the #15 climb among the girls’ top 1,000.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Odette by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Odette mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Odette is “a female given name from French.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Odette?
#883 among girls’ names, 2025
Odette rose from #2,188 in 2015 to #883 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.05 to 0.19 per 1,000.
303 babies in 2025, the peak
Odette peaked in 2025, when 303 girls were given it, #883 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 195 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 303 | #883 | 0.19 |
| 2024 | 195 | #1,216 | 0.12 |
| 2023 | 183 | #1,261 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 180 | #1,315 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 150 | #1,435 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 145 | #1,481 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 116 | #1,768 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 98 | #2,011 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 104 | #1,940 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 78 | #2,407 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (129)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 87 | #2,188 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 52 | #3,174 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 60 | #2,863 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 40 | #3,897 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 49 | #3,339 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,835 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,653 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,067 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,774 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,341 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 30 | #4,554 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 39 | #3,727 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 25 | #5,052 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 46 | #3,129 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 41 | #3,349 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,143 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,080 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,077 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,168 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 34 | #3,408 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,846 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,962 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,905 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,384 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,865 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,887 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 14 | #6,053 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,789 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 16 | #5,007 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,969 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,799 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,782 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,624 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,705 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,471 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,802 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,125 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,859 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,870 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 24 | #3,066 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,726 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,183 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,087 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,139 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 25 | #2,850 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 30 | #2,498 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,353 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,408 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 21 | #2,761 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 32 | #2,082 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 30 | #2,192 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 30 | #2,233 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 41 | #1,830 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 51 | #1,589 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 31 | #2,136 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 36 | #1,914 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 21 | #2,571 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 29 | #2,102 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 31 | #1,975 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 28 | #2,089 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 28 | #2,050 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 36 | #1,725 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 34 | #1,728 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 37 | #1,602 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 26 | #1,950 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 22 | #2,105 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,128 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 27 | #1,847 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 19 | #2,331 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 18 | #2,291 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 10 | #3,071 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,731 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,323 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,651 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,485 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 24 | #1,625 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,128 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,880 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,690 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 14 | #2,236 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 20 | #1,762 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 18 | #1,890 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,508 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 19 | #1,862 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 19 | #1,855 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 26 | #1,560 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 26 | #1,548 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 19 | #2,002 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 22 | #1,866 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 24 | #1,759 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 42 | #1,206 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 26 | #1,706 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 24 | #1,767 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 41 | #1,223 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 37 | #1,290 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 38 | #1,250 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 23 | #1,729 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 24 | #1,675 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 18 | #1,975 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 24 | #1,572 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 31 | #1,280 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,523 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,655 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 18 | #1,282 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 12 | #1,426 | 0.03 |
| 1910 | 12 | #1,404 | 0.03 |
| 1909 | 13 | #1,195 | 0.04 |
| 1908 | 10 | #1,412 | 0.03 |
| 1907 | 11 | #1,262 | 0.03 |
| 1905 | 20 | #843 | 0.07 |
| 1904 | 13 | #1,037 | 0.05 |
| 1902 | 9 | #1,297 | 0.03 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,876 | 0.02 |
| 1900 | 9 | #1,396 | 0.03 |
| 1899 | 12 | #967 | 0.05 |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,351 | 0.03 |
| 1896 | 7 | #1,385 | 0.03 |
| 1895 | 11 | #1,039 | 0.05 |
| 1894 | 7 | #1,319 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Odette a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Odette has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 129 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Odette: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Odette, and how old are they?
3,290 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 78% of the 4,239 Americans ever recorded as Odette. The median Odette alive today is 12 years old; half are between 4 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 4,420 people named Odette (4,409 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,286 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times 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 | 70 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 440 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 302 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 236 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 495 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,740 |
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 Odette born?
The states with the most babies named Odette are California, Texas and Florida, with 43% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 42 | #750 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 37 | #817 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 21 | #791 | 0.5× |
| Washington | 13 | #534 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 12 | #784 | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 12 | #677 | 0.2× |
| Arizona | 11 | #621 | 0.9× |
| Colorado | 10 | #573 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 10 | #740 | 0.2× |
| Missouri | 10 | #582 | 0.2× |
Where Odette is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Odette is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1910 it was given 2.8 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 girls’ 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 Odette 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 4,867 babies since 1880, Odette is the most given (87% of them). In 2025 it was given to 303 of their 303 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 Odette
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 Odette and names like it
- Compare Odette and OdettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sOdette peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Odette since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Odette: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Odette.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Odette alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with OMost given first.