Fun Facts About the Name Odesza
- 68 babies named Odesza: U.S. records list 68 babies given the name Odesza from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Odesza Mean?
Odesza is a respelling of Odessa, the English form of the name of the Ukrainian port city Odesa (Ukrainian: Одеса). Because the word is a place name, it carries no inherited dictionary meaning, and the origin of the city's name is itself disputed, so the meaning of Odesza is best described as uncertain. The explanation most often cited is that Odesa was named after the ancient Greek settlement Odessos (Ὀδησσός), a Black Sea colony near present-day Varna, Bulgaria, mentioned by classical writers. Other accounts have connected the name to Greek words for water or to a Turkic source, but no single derivation is firmly established. The sz spelling keeps the /s/ sound of the standard English form; sz is the letter pair Hungarian uses for that sound, and Hungarian writes the city as Odessza.
Odesza Name History & Origins
As a place name, Odessa was given to the Black Sea port founded in 1794 by decree of Catherine the Great on the site of an earlier Tatar settlement called Khadjibey. The name was chosen to sound Greek and to recall the classical Pontic coast. English speakers met the word mainly through the city, and during the 19th century it began to be used for girls in the United States; a Texas railroad town was also named Odessa after the Ukrainian city in the 1880s. At the same time, 19th-century name books sometimes treated Odessa as a feminine relative of the Greek name Odysseus, a link based on resemblance rather than documented descent. Odesza is a later respelling of Odessa rather than a historical form handed down in a particular language, and the spelling is used by the American electronic music duo ODESZA.
How Popular is the Name Odesza?
Odesza 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 2023. Its best rank was #8,368 in 2023.
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 | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #9,931 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2024 | #16,993 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2023 | #8,368 | 13 | 0.0008% |
| 2022 | #10,208 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2021 | #9,389 | 11 | 0.0007% |
| 2019 | #13,429 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2018 | #15,172 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2017 | #15,439 | 6 | 0.0003% |
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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