# Odell (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/odell/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | Odie |
| Variant spellings | Odele, Odle |
| US babies named this | 19,034 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 14,883 / 4,151 (22% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 10, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 16 | 2,929 |
| 1956 | 15 | 3,139 |
| 1957 | 13 | 3,441 |
| 1958 | 17 | 2,938 |
| 1959 | 13 | 3,573 |
| 1960 | 8 | 5,061 |
| 1961 | 7 | 5,688 |
| 1962 | 15 | 3,392 |
| 1963 | 22 | 2,679 |
| 1964 | 8 | 5,333 |
| 1967 | 8 | 5,312 |
| 1969 | 5 | 8,307 |
| 1971 | 7 | 7,134 |
| 1973 | 7 | 7,199 |
| 2017 | 5 | 17,775 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 14 | 6,162 |
| 2012 | 15 | 5,907 |
| 2013 | 18 | 5,116 |
| 2014 | 21 | 4,657 |
| 2015 | 22 | 4,509 |
| 2016 | 30 | 3,657 |
| 2017 | 42 | 2,876 |
| 2018 | 35 | 3,284 |
| 2019 | 27 | 3,968 |
| 2020 | 31 | 3,546 |
| 2021 | 31 | 3,628 |
| 2022 | 21 | 4,809 |
| 2023 | 25 | 4,306 |
| 2024 | 22 | 4,666 |
| 2025 | 23 | 4,495 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 4 | 3,937 |
| 2025 | 6 | 3,256 |

## People named Odell

- Odell Beckham Jr., American football player (born 1992)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.