Odis
Odis was given to 15 boys in 2025, #6,062 among boys’ names; 8,400 Americans have been recorded with it since 1884 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,520 Americans named Odis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (30% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 48 and 77.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Odis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Odis mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Odis is “a male given name of African-American usage.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Odis?
#6,062 among boys’ names, 2025
Odis rose from #8,521 in 2015 to #6,062 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.7 to 8.8 per million.
215 babies in 1927, the peak
Odis peaked in 1927, when 215 babies were given it (208 boys, #420 among boys’ names). The 15 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #6,062 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 14 | #6,386 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 12 | #7,177 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,598 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 10 | #7,996 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 21 | #4,655 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,488 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,477 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,711 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,743 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (138)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #8,521 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 5 | #13,481 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 5 | #13,520 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 7 | #10,455 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,884 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,963 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 5 | #13,925 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 6 | #11,948 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 8 | #9,324 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,872 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,403 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 6 | #10,296 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 8 | #8,095 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 9 | #7,234 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,662 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,683 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,178 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,693 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,710 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 18 | #3,706 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 17 | #3,769 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,535 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 11 | #4,998 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 23 | #2,839 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 22 | #2,855 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 15 | #3,476 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 23 | #2,436 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 18 | #2,853 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 12 | #3,740 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 33 | #1,753 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 33 | #1,739 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 25 | #2,150 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 26 | #2,073 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 36 | #1,647 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 30 | #1,855 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 29 | #1,821 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 24 | #2,047 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 37 | #1,489 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 29 | #1,740 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 35 | #1,491 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 32 | #1,536 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 45 | #1,243 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 50 | #1,163 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 44 | #1,259 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 39 | #1,274 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 51 | #1,042 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 44 | #1,124 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 53 | #1,003 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 49 | #1,061 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 61 | #978 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 48 | #1,112 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 45 | #1,160 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 67 | #935 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 66 | #933 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 66 | #947 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 67 | #933 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 63 | #961 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 79 | #845 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 96 | #749 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 84 | #781 | 0.04 |
| 1953 | 101 | #709 | 0.05 |
| 1952 | 87 | #759 | 0.04 |
| 1951 | 98 | #700 | 0.05 |
| 1950 | 111 | #662 | 0.06 |
| 1949 | 80 | #772 | 0.05 |
| 1948 | 112 | #640 | 0.06 |
| 1947 | 129 | #598 | 0.07 |
| 1946 | 89 | #688 | 0.05 |
| 1945 | 106 | #589 | 0.08 |
| 1944 | 104 | #603 | 0.08 |
| 1943 | 101 | #637 | 0.07 |
| 1942 | 121 | #559 | 0.09 |
| 1941 | 122 | #533 | 0.10 |
| 1940 | 120 | #537 | 0.10 |
| 1939 | 116 | #534 | 0.10 |
| 1938 | 133 | #507 | 0.12 |
| 1937 | 121 | #527 | 0.11 |
| 1936 | 111 | #546 | 0.11 |
| 1935 | 126 | #513 | 0.12 |
| 1934 | 131 | #506 | 0.13 |
| 1933 | 134 | #485 | 0.14 |
| 1932 | 149 | #471 | 0.14 |
| 1931 | 141 | #481 | 0.14 |
| 1930 | 149 | #486 | 0.14 |
| 1929 | 156 | #470 | 0.15 |
| 1928 | 187 | #438 | 0.17 |
| 1927 | 208 | #420 | 0.18 |
| 1926 | 185 | #447 | 0.17 |
| 1925 | 156 | #489 | 0.14 |
| 1924 | 182 | #454 | 0.16 |
| 1923 | 195 | #435 | 0.18 |
| 1922 | 193 | #436 | 0.18 |
| 1921 | 208 | #420 | 0.19 |
| 1920 | 194 | #433 | 0.18 |
| 1919 | 198 | #416 | 0.20 |
| 1918 | 158 | #471 | 0.16 |
| 1917 | 174 | #431 | 0.19 |
| 1916 | 190 | #403 | 0.21 |
| 1915 | 152 | #443 | 0.18 |
| 1914 | 125 | #431 | 0.19 |
| 1913 | 108 | #415 | 0.21 |
| 1912 | 68 | #477 | 0.16 |
| 1911 | 55 | #383 | 0.24 |
| 1910 | 55 | #336 | 0.28 |
| 1909 | 46 | #347 | 0.28 |
| 1908 | 25 | #510 | 0.16 |
| 1907 | 26 | #461 | 0.18 |
| 1906 | 20 | #515 | 0.15 |
| 1905 | 23 | #474 | 0.17 |
| 1904 | 14 | #638 | 0.11 |
| 1903 | 21 | #465 | 0.18 |
| 1902 | 12 | #676 | 0.10 |
| 1901 | 16 | #502 | 0.15 |
| 1900 | 28 | #427 | 0.19 |
| 1899 | 13 | #574 | 0.12 |
| 1898 | 14 | #595 | 0.11 |
| 1897 | 14 | #577 | 0.12 |
| 1896 | 10 | #763 | 0.08 |
| 1895 | 7 | #952 | 0.06 |
| 1894 | 9 | #770 | 0.08 |
| 1893 | 6 | #997 | 0.05 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,042 | 0.05 |
| 1890 | 8 | #797 | 0.07 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,071 | 0.05 |
| 1888 | 10 | #684 | 0.08 |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,020 | 0.05 |
| 1886 | 6 | #930 | 0.05 |
| 1884 | 6 | #939 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Odis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 8,400 Americans recorded as Odis, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 15 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Odis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Odis, and how old are they?
2,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 30% of the 8,400 Americans ever recorded as Odis. The median Odis alive today is 65 years old; half are between 48 and 77.
The 2020 Census counted 2,351 people named Odis (61 women and girls, 2,290 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,020 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 422 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 988 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 549 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 289 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 118 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 145 |
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 Odis born?
The states with the most babies named Odis are Texas, Arkansas and Alabama, with 47% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Arkansas and Alabama are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,393 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Arkansas | 719 | not ranked | 5.6× |
| Alabama | 604 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Mississippi | 516 | not ranked | 3.4× |
| Louisiana | 488 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Tennessee | 408 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Georgia | 404 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Oklahoma | 381 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| North Carolina | 276 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Kentucky | 189 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Odis is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Odis is most over-represented in Arkansas: since 1910 it was given 5.6 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 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 Odis 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 9,796 babies since 1880, Odis is the most given (86% 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 Odis
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 Odis and names like it
- Compare Odis and OdusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sOdis peaked in 1927.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Odis since 1910.
- The top names of 1927The year the most babies were named Odis.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Odis alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with OMost given first.