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The surname Odegard

A Norwegian surname, carried by 1,597 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex O326

Odegard: #17,596 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Odegard #17,596, 1,597 people Odegard: #17,596 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Odegard #17,596, 1,597 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Odegard is more common than 89.2% of them.

Origin

Norwegian origin

Variant of Odegaard.

One of 31 Norwegian surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,597 people named Odegard in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 193,328 Americans. That is down 1.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,618.

#17,596
rank among US surnames
1,597
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
-1.3%
change since 2000 (was #16,383)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#17,596McGeehan1,597193,328
#17,605Stahlman1,596193,450

Who is named Odegard

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

95% of people named Odegard identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 95%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
  • Two or more races 0.9%
The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Odegard

Odegard has the Soundex code O326, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code O326.

Other Norwegian surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Odegard come from?
Variant of Odegaard.
How common is the surname Odegard?
1,597 people in the United States had the surname Odegard in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 193,328 Americans. It ranked 17,596th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Odegard?
In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Odegard identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Odegard getting more or less common?
Less common. 1,618 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,597 in 2010, down 1.3%.