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Odilia vs Odis

American parents have registered 8,400 Odises since 1880, against 1,268 Odilias. But in 2025 it was Odilia that was commoner, 16 babies to 15.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Odilia 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 140 years in which either name was published, Odis for 136 years and Odilia for 4 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Odilia Odis
Total US births 1,2688,400
Most in one year 35215
Babies in 2025 1615
Estimated living today 7802,600
Median age today 6265
Peak year 19221921
Best rank 1,342nd girls420th boys
Rank in 2025 6,838th5,861st
First recorded 19151884
Girls / boys 1,268 / 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 Odises alive today are over 65; half the Odilias are over 62. That is 3 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: Odilia and Odis.