girls:
18.2k births since 1880
#1096 (81st percentile)
boys:
154 births since 1908
#4432 (3rd percentile)
overall:
18.4k births since 1880
#1894 (76th percentile)
The name Odessa is the #1,894 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 18,392 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 75.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,096 (80.8% percentile) for all time with 18,238 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,432 (3.3% percentile) for all time with 154 births since 1908.
Odessa has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1908 for boys).
The name Odessa has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.2% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Odessa reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 51.9% percentile (ranked #293) with 373 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 462 births per million (ranked 39.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2013, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Odessa ranks #844 for girls (10.9% percentile) with 62 births per million, which is 13.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Odessa reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #529) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1908, with 30 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1998.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Odessa".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Odessa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Odessa is pronounced as oh-DEH-suh, which has 3 syllables.
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