Odile
Odile was last recorded in 2018, when 6 babies were given it; 788 Americans have been recorded with it between 1882 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Odile by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Odile mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Odile is “a female given name” Its etymology gives the sense “riches,” (ot-).
Name of a 7th/8th century saint of Alsace; derivative of a short form of Germanic compound names beginning with the element od-, ot- “riches,” from Frankish *aud.
/ɔ.dil/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Odile?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,170, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 1915, the peak
Odile peaked in 1915, when 27 girls were given it, #1,391 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 6 | #15,170 | 3.5 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,857 | 2.7 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,571 | 3.6 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,188 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,774 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,770 | 3.0 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,893 | 5.1 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,260 | 3.3 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,894 | 2.8 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,402 | 4.6 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 8 | #3,652 | 5.9 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,225 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,343 | 7.3 |
| 1936 | 9 | #3,038 | 8.7 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,399 | 12.4 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,535 | 11.3 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,524 | 11.5 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,870 | 9.9 |
| 1928 | 17 | #2,166 | 14.7 |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,317 | 13.4 |
| 1926 | 11 | #3,001 | 9.3 |
| 1925 | 18 | #2,171 | 14.8 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,390 | 12.8 |
| 1923 | 18 | #2,143 | 14.9 |
| 1922 | 22 | #1,880 | 18.3 |
| 1921 | 21 | #1,970 | 17.0 |
| 1920 | 19 | #2,056 | 15.9 |
| 1919 | 23 | #1,730 | 20.4 |
| 1918 | 19 | #2,006 | 16.4 |
| 1917 | 20 | #1,824 | 18.5 |
| 1916 | 27 | #1,432 | 25.9 |
| 1915 | 27 | #1,391 | 27.4 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,524 | 24.9 |
| 1913 | 18 | #1,394 | 28.8 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,698 | 21.5 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,764 | 12.0 |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,730 | 22.7 |
| 1909 | 17 | #1,010 | 49.0 |
| 1908 | 16 | #1,035 | 47.9 |
| 1907 | 16 | #979 | 50.2 |
| 1906 | 16 | #950 | 54.2 |
| 1905 | 17 | #916 | 58.3 |
| 1904 | 16 | #927 | 58.1 |
| 1903 | 15 | #922 | 57.3 |
| 1902 | 18 | #839 | 68.2 |
| 1901 | 13 | #953 | 54.3 |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,529 | 26.7 |
| 1899 | 8 | #1,256 | 34.3 |
| 1898 | 21 | #739 | 81.2 |
| 1897 | 15 | #858 | 64.0 |
| 1896 | 14 | #896 | 58.8 |
| 1895 | 10 | #1,103 | 42.8 |
| 1894 | 10 | #1,047 | 44.9 |
| 1893 | 9 | #1,072 | 42.3 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,605 | 23.5 |
| 1890 | 10 | #926 | 52.5 |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,235 | 33.6 |
| 1888 | 9 | #942 | 50.4 |
| 1887 | 9 | #837 | 61.7 |
| 1886 | 8 | #878 | 55.4 |
| 1885 | 7 | #900 | 52.6 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,125 | 38.8 |
| 1883 | 5 | #1,017 | 44.5 |
| 1882 | 7 | #793 | 64.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Odile a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Odile has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Odile: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Odile, and how old are they?
An estimated 69 Americans named Odile and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 650 people named Odile (637 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 100 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6.5 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.
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 Odile born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 275 | not ranked | 26.6× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Odile is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Odile is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1910 it was given 26.6 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 Odile 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 2,567 babies since 1880, Odile is the second most given (31% of them).
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 Odile
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 Odile and names like it
- Compare Odile and OdiliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sOdile peaked in 1915.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Odile since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Odile: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1915The year the most babies were named Odile.
- Names starting with OMost given first.