girls:
5 births since 2013
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
181 births since 1914
#4405 (4th percentile)
overall:
186 births since 1914
#7553 (2nd percentile)
The name Odel is the #7,553 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 186 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 2.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,405 (3.9% percentile) for all time with 181 births since 1914. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2013.
Odel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for boys and 2013 for girls). Birth data for Odel is available in 25 out of the 103 years between 1914 and 2016 (24 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Odel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Odel reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #537) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1916, with 13 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2016.
For girls, Odel reached its peak popularity in 2013, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #931) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2013, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2013.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Odel".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Odel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 52.5% confident that Odel is pronounced as oh-DEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is OH-duhl, at 27.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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