Odessa
Odessa is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 133 births. Its best rank was 278th, in 1908–1909.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1330.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 1920464 births
- Best rank
- #278first in 1908
- Since 1880
- 18,372people given the name
The story in the numbers
18,372 girls have been named Odessa in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 464 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1930, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 77 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Odessa | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 204 | |
| 1890s | 508 | |
| 1900s | 1,183 | |
| 1910s | 3,085 | |
| 1920s | 4,114 | |
| 1930s | 2,436 | |
| 1940s | 1,708 | |
| 1950s | 1,167 | |
| 1960s | 684 | |
| 1970s | 505 | |
| 1980s | 439 | |
| 1990s | 447 | |
| 2000s | 544 | |
| 2010s | 734 | |
| 2020s | 614 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Odessa was the 304th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Odessa
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Novellapeak 1923
- Adellpeak 1921
- Albertapeak 1919
- Alinepeak 1920
- Corinepeak 1920
- Eunicepeak 1921
- Cleopeak 1920
- Ermapeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.