In 2025, 74 US boys were named Oden, making it the 2,033rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 194 places from #2,227 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 65 boys named Oden in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,691, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 102. For comparison, it was #2,012 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Oden in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 5 babies. In all, 1,574 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 653 babies named Oden.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 819 US boys were named Oden; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 102. In 2025 that was about 1 in 23,082 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Oden ranked highest in Ohio in 2025, at #1,216 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Odin (13,282 babies since 1880).