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Odies vs Odilia

American parents have registered 1,268 Odilias since 1880, against 198 Odieses. Odilia is still ahead, with 16 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Odies against Odilia, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Odies Odilia

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 95 years in which either name was published, Odilia for 91 years and Odies for 4 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Odies Odilia
Total US births 1981,268
Most in one year 1535
Babies in 2025 under 516
Estimated living today 20780
Median age today 7962
Peak year 19221922
Best rank 2,143rd boys1,342nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked6,838th
First recorded 19101915
Girls / boys 0 / 1981,268 / 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 Odilias are over 62. That is 17 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 Odilia.