Odysseus is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Ulysses, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Odysseus: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 44 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,828 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,828 in 2020; #2,870 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Odysseus in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,870 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #2,828.
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Odysseus: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 44 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,828 in 2020 · most boys in one year: 44 (2025).
In 2025, 44 US boys were named Odysseus, making it the 2,870th most common boys’ name of the year, up 277 places from #3,147 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 39 boys named Odysseus in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,828, reached in 2020. The most boys given the name in a single year was 44, in 2025. For comparison, it was #4,371 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Odysseus in 24 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1999 with 6 babies. In all, 526 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 247 babies named Odysseus.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 352 US boys were named Odysseus; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 44. In 2025 that was about 1 in 38,820 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ulysses (18,680 babies since 1880).
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.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Odysseus in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 44 | #2,870 |
| 2024 | — | — | 39 | #3,147 |
| 2023 | — | — | 21 | #4,846 |
| 2022 | — | — | 41 | #3,041 |
| 2021 | — | — | 38 | #3,162 |
| 2020 | — | — | 43 | #2,828 |
| 2019 | — | — | 43 | #2,890 |
| 2018 | — | — | 31 | #3,583 |
| 2017 | — | — | 25 | #4,198 |
| 2016 | — | — | 27 | #3,958 |
| 2015 | — | — | 23 | #4,371 |
| 2014 | — | — | 30 | #3,593 |
| 2013 | — | — | 28 | #3,724 |
| 2012 | — | — | 16 | #5,652 |
| 2011 | — | — | 14 | #6,163 |
| 2010 | — | — | 10 | #7,970 |
| 2009 | — | — | 6 | #12,063 |
| 2008 | — | — | 5 | #14,050 |
| 2007 | — | — | 8 | #9,518 |
| 2006 | — | — | 8 | #9,331 |
| 2003 | — | — | 7 | #9,348 |
| 2002 | — | — | 7 | #9,125 |
| 2000 | — | — | 6 | #9,978 |
| 1999 | — | — | 6 | #9,555 |
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).