Odelia vs Odetta

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Odelia Odetta

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 138 years in which either name was published, Odelia for 128 years and Odetta for 10 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

• 1880–1959 Odelia ahead
• 1960–1961 Odetta ahead
• 1962 Odelia ahead
• 1963–1964 Odetta ahead
• 1965–1966 Odelia ahead
• 1967 Odetta ahead
• 1968–1970 Odelia ahead
• 1971–1976 Odetta ahead
• 1977–2025 Odelia ahead

Side by side

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 Odettas alive today are over 62; half the Odelias are over 24. That is 38 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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