Odette

Where Odette comes from

The dictionaries list Odette as a given name — a female given name from French — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • French
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1894
    First appearance
    #1,237 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1905
    Peak, #825
    20 babies named Odette — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1906
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1985
    Odette Annable born
    American actress
  5. 1994
    Odette Giuffrida born
    Italian judoka
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from French.
Namesakes
  • Odette Annable · American actress, born 1985
  • Odette Giuffrida · Italian judoka, born 1994
  • Odette Bancilhon · astronomer, 1908–1993
  • Odette Joyeux · French writer and actor, 1914–2000
  • Odette de Champdivers · mistress of Charles VI of France, 1390–1425

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.