Odin
Odin was given to 604 boys in 2025, #502 among boys’ names; 13,282 Americans have been recorded with it since 1884 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,000 Americans named Odin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 5 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Odin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Odin?
#502 among boys’ names, 2025
Odin fell from #447 in 2015 to #502 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.36 to 0.35 per 1,000.
1,023 babies in 2022, the peak
Odin peaked in 2022, when 1,023 boys were given it, #331 among boys’ names. The 604 births of 2025 are 59% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 604 | #502 | 0.35 |
| 2024 | 645 | #478 | 0.37 |
| 2023 | 903 | #361 | 0.53 |
| 2022 | 1,023 | #331 | 0.59 |
| 2021 | 1,009 | #327 | 0.58 |
| 2020 | 992 | #331 | 0.57 |
| 2019 | 1,011 | #331 | 0.56 |
| 2018 | 999 | #336 | 0.55 |
| 2017 | 903 | #366 | 0.49 |
| 2016 | 836 | #383 | 0.44 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 690 | #447 | 0.36 |
| 2014 | 604 | #475 | 0.31 |
| 2013 | 453 | #572 | 0.24 |
| 2012 | 375 | #639 | 0.20 |
| 2011 | 317 | #718 | 0.17 |
| 2010 | 247 | #858 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 202 | #983 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 202 | #983 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 181 | #1,047 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 130 | #1,287 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 108 | #1,387 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 107 | #1,361 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 100 | #1,359 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 87 | #1,465 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,104 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 42 | #2,315 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 23 | #3,453 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 10 | #6,168 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 15 | #4,394 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 12 | #5,090 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,807 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 20 | #3,422 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,653 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,182 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,962 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,687 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,683 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,908 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,500 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,579 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #7,024 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,318 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,483 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 10 | #4,066 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,338 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,758 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,897 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,644 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,219 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,852 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,489 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,373 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 10 | #3,280 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #4,114 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,830 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,817 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,455 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,772 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,459 | under 0.01 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,141 | under 0.01 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,501 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,383 | under 0.01 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,004 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,071 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,059 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 10 | #2,879 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,753 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,116 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,773 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 10 | #2,903 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 10 | #2,815 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 16 | #2,047 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,382 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,494 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,406 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,221 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,049 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 9 | #1,841 | 0.02 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,371 | 0.04 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,259 | 0.04 |
| 1884 | 6 | #938 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Odin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Odin has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 81 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Odin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Odin, and how old are they?
13,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 13,282 Americans ever recorded as Odin. The median Odin alive today is 8 years old; half are between 5 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 7,549 people named Odin (32 women and girls, 7,517 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,101 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 5 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 77 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 124 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,170 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 10,600 |
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 Odin born?
The states with the most babies named Odin are California, Texas and Florida, with 25% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 59 | #529 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 43 | #683 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 40 | #463 | 0.7× |
| Minnesota | 35 | #191 | 2.9× |
| Ohio | 33 | #346 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 31 | #310 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 23 | #451 | 0.8× |
| Wisconsin | 22 | #268 | 1.9× |
| Washington | 21 | #361 | 1.9× |
| Illinois | 20 | #506 | 0.8× |
Where Odin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Odin is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1910 it was given 2.9 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 boys’ 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 Odin 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 15,302 babies since 1880, Odin is the most given (87% of them). In 2025 it was given to 604 of their 708 babies (85%), 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 Odin
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 Odin and names like it
- Compare Odin and OdenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sOdin peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Odin since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Odin.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Odin alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with OMost given first.