Oda

Where Oda comes from

Oda hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 901
    Oda of Haldensleben born
    German noblewoman and consort to Mieszko I of Poland
  2. 1860
    Oda Krohg born
    Norwegian painter, wife of Christian Krohg
  3. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #580 among girls — 9 babies in the first year on record.
  4. 1889
    Peak, #486
    26 babies named Oda — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1905
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,057.
  6. 1962
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Oda Krohg · Norwegian painter, wife of Christian Krohg, 1860–1935
  • Oda of Haldensleben · German noblewoman and consort to Mieszko I of Poland, 901–1023
  • Oda of Meissen · Queen consort of Poland, 996–1025
  • Oda Schottmüller · German resistance fighter, 1905–1943
  • Oda Jaune · Bulgarian painter, born 1979

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.