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Odean vs Odelia

American parents have registered 2,860 Odelias since 1880, against 728 Odeans. Odelia is still ahead, with 56 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Odean against Odelia, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Odean Odelia

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 136 years in which either name was published, Odelia for 131 years and Odean for 5 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Odean Odelia
Total US births 7282,860
Most in one year 3857
Babies in 2025 under 556
Estimated living today 1401,400
Median age today 7924
Peak year 19222024
Best rank 1,730th girls2,889th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked2,957th
First recorded 19141880
Girls / boys 377 / 3512,860 / 0

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 Odeans alive today are over 79; half the Odelias are over 24. That is 55 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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