Odalis
Feminine
Odalis is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 2,645 girls against 51 boys since 1880.
Spanish sexes names by their endings, and Odalis is one of the few it cannot. A name ending in -a is female and one ending in -o is male, with almost no exceptions; a name ending in -is falls outside the system, which is why Odalis is given to boys and girls alike in the Dominican Republic.
How old is the name Odalis?
Odalis first appears in US birth records in 1963 — 62 years ago. The typical Odalis alive today was born around 2000, making them about 25 years old. About 2,600 people named Odalis are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Odalis most popular?
Odalis peaked in 1998, reaching #888 nationally. Today it ranks #8860, 7,972 places below that high. See the whole 1998 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Odalis
Our reading is that Spanish naming is unusually rule-bound about sex and that the exceptions are worth noticing. The system is simple: -o is masculine, -a is feminine, and it applies to nouns, adjectives and names alike, so a Spanish speaker meeting an unfamiliar name ending in either can assign a sex without hesitation. That leaves a small set of endings the rules do not cover, and names built on them can go either way: -is, -e, -i and consonant endings all produce unisex or ambiguous names. Guadalupe, Trinidad, Rosario and Refugio are unisex for related reasons, taking their gender from the noun behind the devotion rather than from the ending. Odalis and its relatives are modern coinages that landed on one of the free endings, and the ambiguity is a consequence of the ending rather than a choice anyone made.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Odalis has no established etymology. It is a Caribbean Spanish coinage, chiefly Dominican and Cuban, built on an -alis or -alys ending shared with Arelis and Yarelis. A Germanic derivation from odal, an ancestral estate, is sometimes claimed and is not supported. The name is used for both sexes. It peaks in the American data in 1998.
Pronouncing Odalis
oh-DAH-lees
Three syllables, stress on the second. Spanish stress falls on the second-to-last syllable in words ending in s, which is what puts it there. English speakers say OH-duh-lis with the stress at the front.
Nicknames for Odalis
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1963
- Most girls named
- 1998237 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #888reached in 1998
- Change vs 2024
- −21.4%11 in 2025, from 14
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Odalis in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Odalys in Spanish — spelling variant
- Odaliz in Spanish — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas.
Odaliss among us
people named Odalis are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 146,115 born in 2025 was named Odalis
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Odalis
- #8860
- Odalis on the 2025 chart
- #910
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Odalis went to 11 girls in 2025, but Odalys is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 50, which makes it the 910th most-given girls’ name of the year — 7,950 places above the chart.
- Odalys39
- Odalis11
About 1 girl in 32,145 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 146,115 for Odalis itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Joline test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Odalis's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Joline climbed just as high around 1928, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Joline's path sketches the road Odalis is walking now.
Odalis sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Odalis beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Odalis in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It is unisex in Spanish, which is unusual and useful.
- Oda and Lis are two usable short forms.
- The rhythm is even and easy to say.
- No meaning can be given, and the ones in circulation are invented.
- English speakers move the stress to the front.
- Odalys and Odalis both circulate.
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Frequently asked
- How many Odaliss are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,600 people named Odalis are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Odalis?
- Odalis is one of 2 recorded spellings. Odalys is the more common one — 39 births in 2025 against 11 for Odalis.
- How popular is the name Odalis in 2025?
- Odalis ranks #8860 among US girl names in 2025, with 11 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Odalis?
- About 1 in every 146,115 US girls born in 2025 was named Odalis — 11 in all.
- Will my child share the name Odalis with classmates?
- Odalis will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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