Odies — boys' name
198 babies named Odies in U.S. Social Security records since 1910, with the highest year being 1922. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
45% of everyone ever named Odies was born in this single decade.
15 babies were named Odies in 1922 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Odies
The Social Security Administration has registered 198 babies named Odies between 1910 and 1961, spanning 52 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Odies currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1961. The name reached its historical peak in 1922, when 15 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Odies performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 90 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Odies shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Mississippi, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Odies in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Odies 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 198 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.
Odies at a glance
Last recorded 1961Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Odies popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1961–1910
- Peak year (1922)
- 15
- Annual births at peak — across 52 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1961.
198 total births across 52 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1922 with 15 births in a single year.
Odies by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 90 births that decade — 45% of Odies's all-time total
Odies decade highlights
- Peak decade 90 births
- Runner-up 36 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Odies's strongest decade
90 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 45% of all-time use.
Odies by state
Where Odies concentrates geographically — total births since 1910
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Mississippi | | 5 | 2.5% |
5 of 198 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Mississippi 2.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Mississippi accounts for 2.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1910–1961 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.