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Odean vs Oden

American parents have registered 1,574 Odens since 1880, against 728 Odeans. Oden is still ahead, with 74 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Odean against Oden, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Odean Oden

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 73 years in which either name was published, Odean for 42 years and Oden for 31 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Odean Oden
Total US births 7281,574
Most in one year 38102
Babies in 2025 under 574
Estimated living today 1401,400
Median age today 798
Peak year 19222022
Best rank 1,730th girls1,678th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked2,020th
First recorded 19141912
Girls / boys 377 / 3510 / 1,574

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 Odens are over 8. That is 71 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 Oden.