Odie

Where Odie comes from

Separate origins as diminutives of British name Odell and Germanic name Odin; later used as nickname for additional given names.
— Wiktionary's entry for Odie
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #682 among boys — 8 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1891
    Odie Cleghorn born
    Canadian ice hockey player
  3. 1899
    Peak, #424
    19 babies named Odie — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1926
    Odie Payne born
    American Chicago blues drummer
  5. 1928
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  6. 1962
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,848.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given names Odell, Odin, Ogilvie, Otis, Odysseus, Odicea, Odoardo, and Odunayo, also used as a formal given name.
  • A diminutive of the female given names Odell, Odele, and Odette, also used as a formal given name.
Namesakes
  • Odie Cleghorn · Canadian ice hockey player, 1891–1956
  • Odie Payne · American Chicago blues drummer, 1926–1989

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.