Meaning not yet researched.
Odin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 604 in 2025. Its best rank was #327 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #327 in 2021; #502 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Odin in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#502 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #327.
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Odin: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 604 boys in 2025. Peak: #327 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 1,023 (2022).
In 2025, 604 US boys were named Odin, making it the 502nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 24 places from #478 in 2024. That is 41 fewer than the 645 boys named Odin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #327, reached in 2021. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,023, in 2022. For comparison, it was #447 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Odin in 81 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1884 with 6 babies. In all, 13,282 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 6,435 babies named Odin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 8,925 US boys were named Odin; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 1,023. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,828 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Odin ranked highest in Wyoming in 2025, at #114 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Oden (1,574 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Odean, Odyn and Odinn are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Odean (728), Odyn (327), Odinn (119), Odene (41), Odon (17), Odynn (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Odin in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 17 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wyoming | 5 | #114 | #126 |
| South Dakota | 10 | #140 | #238 |
| North Dakota | 8 | #167 | #275 |
| Minnesota | 35 | #191 | #203 |
| Wisconsin | 22 | #268 | #226 |
| Michigan | 31 | #310 | #359 |
| Ohio | 33 | #346 | #446 |
| Colorado | 18 | #358 | #224 |
| Washington | 21 | #361 | #208 |
| Idaho | 6 | #419 | #306 |
| Nebraska | 6 | #420 | — |
| Oregon | 9 | #430 | #267 |
| Iowa | 8 | #431 | #407 |
| Louisiana | 11 | #441 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 23 | #451 | #414 |
| Missouri | 14 | #453 | #599 |
| Florida | 40 | #463 | #582 |
| Utah | 9 | #504 | #235 |
| Illinois | 20 | #506 | #699 |
| Kentucky | 9 | #511 | #449 |
| Arizona | 14 | #517 | #551 |
| California | 59 | #529 | #429 |
| Indiana | 13 | #536 | #382 |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #541 | #495 |
| Connecticut | 5 | #552 | — |
| Virginia | 13 | #579 | #534 |
| North Carolina | 16 | #614 | #582 |
| Alabama | 7 | #667 | — |
| Texas | 43 | #683 | #679 |
| Tennessee | 10 | #709 | #578 |
| Georgia | 11 | #836 | #976 |
| New York | 16 | #876 | #508 |
| New Jersey | 7 | #886 | #1,066 |
| Maryland | 5 | #891 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 604 | #502 |
| 2024 | — | — | 645 | #478 |
| 2023 | — | — | 903 | #361 |
| 2022 | — | — | 1,023 | #331 |
| 2021 | — | — | 1,009 | #327 |
| 2020 | — | — | 992 | #331 |
| 2019 | — | — | 1,011 | #331 |
| 2018 | — | — | 999 | #336 |
| 2017 | — | — | 903 | #366 |
| 2016 | — | — | 836 | #383 |
| 2015 | — | — | 690 | #447 |
| 2014 | — | — | 604 | #475 |
| 2013 | — | — | 453 | #572 |
| 2012 | — | — | 375 | #639 |
| 2011 | — | — | 317 | #718 |
| 2010 | — | — | 247 | #858 |
| 2009 | — | — | 202 | #983 |
| 2008 | — | — | 202 | #983 |
| 2007 | — | — | 181 | #1,047 |
| 2006 | — | — | 130 | #1,287 |
| 2005 | — | — | 108 | #1,388 |
| 2004 | — | — | 107 | #1,363 |
| 2003 | — | — | 100 | #1,360 |
| 2002 | — | — | 87 | #1,468 |
| 2001 | — | — | 50 | #2,108 |
| 2000 | — | — | 42 | #2,319 |
| 1999 | — | — | 23 | #3,458 |
| 1998 | — | — | 10 | #6,175 |
| 1997 | — | — | 15 | #4,399 |
| 1996 | — | — | 12 | #5,097 |
| 1995 | — | — | 8 | #6,814 |
| 1994 | — | — | 20 | #3,428 |
| 1993 | — | — | 8 | #6,659 |
| 1992 | — | — | 7 | #7,189 |
| 1991 | — | — | 6 | #7,969 |
| 1990 | — | — | 9 | #5,694 |
| 1988 | — | — | 10 | #4,688 |
| 1987 | — | — | 7 | #5,915 |
| 1986 | — | — | 5 | #7,506 |
| 1985 | — | — | 7 | #5,584 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #7,028 |
| 1983 | — | — | 7 | #5,321 |
| 1982 | — | — | 9 | #4,485 |
| 1981 | — | — | 10 | #4,068 |
| 1980 | — | — | 7 | #5,340 |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #6,760 |
| 1978 | — | — | 7 | #4,900 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,646 |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #6,221 |
| 1975 | — | — | 9 | #3,854 |
| 1974 | — | — | 7 | #4,491 |
| 1973 | — | — | 10 | #3,375 |
| 1972 | — | — | 10 | #3,282 |
| 1970 | — | — | 7 | #4,116 |
| 1969 | — | — | 7 | #3,831 |
| 1966 | — | — | 6 | #3,818 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,456 |
| 1944 | — | — | 5 | #3,774 |
| 1943 | — | — | 6 | #3,460 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #4,144 |
| 1930 | — | — | 7 | #3,503 |
| 1929 | — | — | 5 | #4,385 |
| 1928 | — | — | 9 | #3,006 |
| 1927 | — | — | 6 | #4,073 |
| 1926 | — | — | 6 | #4,061 |
| 1925 | — | — | 10 | #2,881 |
| 1924 | — | — | 7 | #3,754 |
| 1923 | — | — | 6 | #4,119 |
| 1922 | — | — | 7 | #3,775 |
| 1920 | — | — | 10 | #2,904 |
| 1919 | — | — | 10 | #2,816 |
| 1918 | — | — | 16 | #2,048 |
| 1917 | — | — | 12 | #2,383 |
| 1916 | — | — | 11 | #2,495 |
| 1915 | — | — | 11 | #2,407 |
| 1914 | — | — | 10 | #2,222 |
| 1913 | — | — | 9 | #2,050 |
| 1912 | — | — | 9 | #1,842 |
| 1905 | — | — | 5 | #1,372 |
| 1902 | — | — | 5 | #1,260 |
| 1884 | — | — | 6 | #938 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).