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Oda vs Odalis

American parents have registered 2,696 Odalises since 1880, against 1,625 Odas. Odalis is still ahead, with 11 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Oda against Odalis, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Oda Odalis

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 120 years in which either name was published, Oda for 71 years and Odalis for 49 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Oda Odalis
Total US births 1,6252,696
Most in one year 52237
Babies in 2025 under 511
Estimated living today 1002,700
Median age today 8425
Peak year 19181998
Best rank 1,126th girls888th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked8,860th
First recorded 18801963
Girls / boys 1,324 / 3012,645 / 51

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Odas alive today are over 84; half the Odalises are over 25. That is 59 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Oda and Odalis.