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The surname Odle

A surname, carried by 3,984 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex O340

Odle: #8,317 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Odle #8,317, 3,984 people Odle: #8,317 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Odle #8,317, 3,984 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Odle is more common than 94.9% of them.

Origin

Possibly a variant of Odell.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,984 people named Odle in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 77,496 Americans. That is up 2.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,895.

#8,317
rank among US surnames
3,984
people in 2010
1.4
per 100,000 Americans
+2.3%
change since 2000 (was #7,886)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#8,312Steinbach3,98777,438
#8,313Rideout3,98677,457
#8,316Woodhouse3,98577,477
#8,317Odle3,98477,496
#8,320Michalak3,98377,516
#8,322Kantor3,98277,535

Who is named Odle

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

89% of people named Odle identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 89%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 5.3%
  • Two or more races 2.0%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Odle

Odle has the Soundex code O340, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code O340.

Questions

Where does the surname Odle come from?
Possibly a variant of Odell.
How common is the surname Odle?
3,984 people in the United States had the surname Odle in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 77,496 Americans. It ranked 8,317th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Odle?
In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Odle identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Odle getting more or less common?
More common. 3,895 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,984 in 2010, up 2.3%.