Odie — #8955 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Odie

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,606 babies named Odie between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Odie currently holds the #8955 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 62 babies received it in a single year. Odie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,589 additional births since 1881.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Odie performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 491 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Odie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Mississippi, which accounts for 222 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Tennessee and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Odie in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Odie 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 2,606 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.