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Odile vs Odis

American parents have registered 8,400 Odises since 1880, against 788 Odiles. Odis is still ahead, with 15 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Odile against Odis, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Odile Odis

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 141 years in which either name was published, Odis for 127 years and Odile for 14 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Odile Odis
Total US births 7888,400
Most in one year 27215
Babies in 2025 under 515
Estimated living today 702,600
Median age today 7165
Peak year 19151921
Best rank 1,367th girls420th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked5,861st
First recorded 18821884
Girls / boys 788 / 0171 / 8,229

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 Odiles alive today are over 71; half the Odises are over 65. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Odile and Odis.