Fun Facts About the Name Odelle
- 434 babies named Odelle: U.S. records list 434 babies given the name Odelle from 1880 through 2025. Even 10 boys received the name Odelle - about 1 boy for every 42 girls.
What Does the Name Odelle Mean?
Odelle is a feminine name built on the Germanic element auda- (also written ōd-), which meant "wealth, riches, prosperity." That same element underlies a family of older names, among them Oda and Odilia (French Odile). Odilia is generally explained as a diminutive of Oda, "little wealthy one." Odelle carries the French feminine ending -elle, the ending seen in Gabrielle and Danielle, which also has a diminutive force. The customary sense of the name is therefore "little wealthy one," or more plainly "wealthy, prosperous."
Odelle Name History & Origins
The Germanic root behind Odelle belonged to a large stock of medieval name elements and produced masculine and feminine names across German- and French-speaking regions, including Oda, Odilo, Odile, and Odilia. The best-known bearer of the feminine form is Odile (Odilia) of Alsace, a seventh- and eighth-century abbess remembered in hagiographic tradition as a daughter of the duke of Alsace and founder of the monastery at Hohenburg, now called Mont Sainte-Odile. Veneration of her, especially in Alsace and the Rhineland, kept forms of the name in use; it passed into French as Odile, with the diminutive Odette.
Odelle belongs to the French-influenced branch of that family, in which the ending -elle forms a feminine name from a shorter base, as in Gabrielle from Gabriel and Danielle from Daniel. Names of this shape entered English largely through French, and Odelle is used as an English feminine given name. Its element and ending are both old, but the combination itself is rare, and its history has to be pieced together from those parts rather than from a continuous written record of the name Odelle.
How Popular is the Name Odelle?
Odelle has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 1916. Its best rank was #1,344 in 1904.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | #5,498 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1945 | #4,402 | 6 | 0.0005% |
| 1943 | #5,183 | 5 | 0.0004% |
| 1938 | #4,822 | 5 | 0.0005% |
| 1936 | #4,036 | 6 | 0.0006% |
| 1935 | #3,360 | 8 | 0.0008% |
| 1933 | #3,332 | 8 | 0.0008% |
| 1932 | #4,289 | 6 | 0.0006% |
| 1931 | #3,759 | 7 | 0.0007% |
| 1930 | #3,004 | 10 | 0.0009% |
| 1929 | #3,955 | 7 | 0.0006% |
| 1928 | #2,355 | 15 | 0.0013% |
| 1927 | #2,317 | 16 | 0.0013% |
| 1926 | #2,440 | 15 | 0.0013% |
| 1925 | #2,262 | 17 | 0.0014% |
| 1924 | #3,312 | 10 | 0.0008% |
| 1923 | #2,344 | 16 | 0.0013% |
| 1922 | #2,084 | 19 | 0.0016% |
| 1921 | #2,175 | 18 | 0.0015% |
| 1920 | #1,935 | 21 | 0.0018% |
| 1919 | #1,690 | 24 | 0.0021% |
| 1918 | #2,082 | 18 | 0.0016% |
| 1917 | #1,754 | 21 | 0.0019% |
| 1916 | #1,474 | 26 | 0.0025% |
| 1915 | #1,559 | 23 | 0.0023% |
| 1914 | #2,225 | 11 | 0.0014% |
| 1913 | #1,983 | 11 | 0.0018% |
| 1912 | #1,947 | 10 | 0.0018% |
| 1911 | #1,354 | 13 | 0.0031% |
| 1910 | #2,687 | 5 | 0.0013% |
| 1909 | #1,446 | 10 | 0.0029% |
| 1908 | #1,804 | 7 | 0.0021% |
| 1907 | #1,992 | 6 | 0.0019% |
| 1904 | #1,344 | 9 | 0.0033% |
| 1903 | #1,999 | 5 | 0.0019% |
| 1902 | #1,968 | 5 | 0.0019% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1924 | #4,781 | 5 | 0.0004% |
| 1920 | #4,784 | 5 | 0.0005% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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How the Name Odelle Shapes Your Personality and Life?
You are patient, persevering and strong willed. You are a good student, absorbing knowledge easily and retaining it well. You are either a saint or a sinner. You tend to hold things inside and suffer in silence. You are frank, methodical and believe in law, system and order.
Position and social status is very important for you and you are always looking for way to improve your position in society. You have power and ability to chose your own destiny and achieve anything you want in life. You can expand in any direction according to your will and the set of values. You have passion for justice and belong to the position of authority. You have an inherent courage and endurance to accomplish "The Impossible Dream". With the power comes responsibility. You hold keys to the material world, but with this gift comes high spiritual responsibility to be fair and true to others. You are philosophical and mature, determined and intense with a desire to endure, often religious.
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