girls:
5 births since 1961
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
12 births since 1984
#4574 (0th percentile)
overall:
17 births since 1961
#7722 (0th percentile)
The name Ody is the #7,722 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 17 recorded births since 1961. This represents the 0.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,574 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 12 births since 1984. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1961.
Ody first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1961 (1961 for girls and 1984 for boys). Birth data for Ody is available in 3 out of the 27 years between 1961 and 1987 (2 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 Ody has been given predominantly to boys, with 70.6% of all recorded births being male. In 1987, 100.0% of babies named Ody were boys. Interestingly, until around 1984, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1961 to 1983), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (100.0% boys from 1984 to 1987).
For boys, Ody reached its peak popularity in 1984, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #686) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1984, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1987.
For girls, Ody reached its peak popularity in 1961, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #788) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 1961, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1961.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ody".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Ody is pronounced as OH-dee, which has 2 syllables.
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