girls:
4.2k births since 1889
#2671 (53rd percentile)
boys:
14.8k births since 1883
#961 (79th percentile)
overall:
19k births since 1883
#1865 (76th percentile)
The name Odell is the #1,865 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 18,988 recorded births since 1883. This represents the 75.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #961 (79.0% percentile) for all time with 14,837 births since 1883. For girls, it ranks #2,671 (53.3% percentile) for all time with 4,151 births since 1889.
Odell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1883 (1883 for boys and 1889 for girls). Birth data for Odell is available in 136 out of the 141 years between 1883 and 2023 (135 years for boys and 77 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 Odell has been given predominantly to boys, with 78.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Odell were boys.
For boys, Odell reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 49.7% percentile (ranked #275) with 326 births per million. The name was most common in 1906, with 333 births per million (ranked 18.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Odell ranks #891 for boys (2.2% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 4.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Odell reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 26.8% percentile (ranked #443) with 134 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 172 births per million (ranked 16.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Odell".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Odell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 78.7% confident that Odell is pronounced as oh-DEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is OH-dehl, at 12.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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