Odie
Odie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. Its best rank was 432nd, in 1899.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 191862 births
- Best rank
- #432in 1899
- Since 1880
- 4,195people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,606 boys have been named Odie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 62 births.
The name has all but left use: 8 births in 2024, against 62 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1930, and the 1920s alone account for 19%. It has spent 45 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Odie is used for both sexes: 38% of its bearers are girls (1,589), most of them born around 1916.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Odie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 93 | |
| 1890s | 132 | |
| 1900s | 157 | |
| 1910s | 426 | |
| 1920s | 491 | |
| 1930s | 359 | |
| 1940s | 284 | |
| 1950s | 256 | |
| 1960s | 125 | |
| 1970s | 112 | |
| 1980s | 62 | |
| 1990s | 20 | |
| 2000s | 12 | |
| 2010s | 35 | |
| 2020s | 42 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Odie was the 837th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Odie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Earlypeak 1927
- Percypeak 1921
- Clarencepeak 1921
- Websterpeak 1915
- Sampeak 1918
- Elmorepeak 1918
- Okeypeak 1925
- Homerpeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.