Odom

At the 2020 census, 33,171 Americans bore the surname Odom — 1,040th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 9,011.

By the numbers

People: 33,171
Rank: 1,040th
How common: 1 in 9,011
Per 100,000: 11.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Middle English

From Middle English odam (“son-in-law”), a nickname for someone who married the daughter of a prominent figure in the local community.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Odom described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 66.7%
Black, not Hispanic 24.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Odom

Lamar Odom (born 1979)American basketball player
Leslie Odom Jr. (born 1981)American actor and singer
Darius Johnson-Odom (born 1989)American basketball player

People named Odom with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Odom

Odonnell

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.