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Odies vs Odile

American parents have registered 788 Odiles since 1880, against 198 Odieses. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Odies against Odile, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Odies Odile

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 71 years in which either name was published, Odile for 62 years and Odies for 9 years. The lead changed hands 14 times.

12 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Odies Odile
Total US births 198788
Most in one year 1527
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 2070
Median age today 7971
Peak year 19221915
Best rank 2,143rd boys1,367th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19101882
Girls / boys 0 / 198788 / 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 Odieses alive today are over 79; half the Odiles are over 71. That is 8 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: Odies and Odile.