In 2025, 303 US girls were named Odette, making it the 883rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 333 places from #1,216 in 2024. That is 108 more than the 195 girls named Odette in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #843, reached in 1905. The most girls given the name in a single year was 303, in 2025. For comparison, it was #2,188 in 2015 and #2,106 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Odette in 129 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1894 with 7 babies. In all, 4,239 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,156 babies named Odette.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,552 US girls were named Odette; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 303. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,305 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Odette ranked highest in Nevada in 2025, at #414 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Odetta, Odeth and Ode are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.