Odalys
Feminine · “wealth”
Odalys is a Spanish-language name from Cuba and the Caribbean, and it stands close to the Germanic Odila — a word about wealth and inherited property.
How old is the name Odalys?
Odalys first appears in US birth records in 1960 — 65 years ago. The typical Odalys alive today was born around 2001, making them about 24 years old. About 3,400 people named Odalys are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Odalys most popular?
Odalys peaked in 1996, reaching #678 nationally. Today it ranks #3780, 3,102 places below that high. See the whole 1996 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Odalys
Ours, offered as ours. Cuba has one of the more inventive naming traditions in the Spanish-speaking world — Yoandry, Odalys, Yusimí, Dayami — and many of its names were coined in the twentieth century from familiar-sounding pieces rather than inherited. Odalys sits close enough to the Germanic Odila to be a development of it and far enough to be a coinage. What is certain is the community: it is thoroughly Cuban and Caribbean, and it traveled to Florida with the people who use it.
Meaningscholars disagree
wealth, inheritance
The likeliest source is the Germanic od, wealth or property, which gives Odila, Odette and Otto. Whether Odalys descends from it or was coined in Cuban naming, which produced a great many new names in the twentieth century, is not documented.
Pronouncing Odalys
oh-DAH-lees
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Every letter is sounded in Spanish.
Nicknames for Odalys
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
- 1960
- Most girls named
- 1996322 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #678reached in 1996
- Change vs 2024
- −9.3%39 in 2025, from 43
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.
Odalys in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Odilia in German — related form
- Odalis in Spanish — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Arizona.
Odalyss among us
people named Odalys are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 41,212 born in 2025 was named Odalys
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Odalys
- #3780
- Odalys on the 2025 chart
- #910
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Odalys went to 39 girls in 2025, but Odalis 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 — 2,870 places above the chart.
- Odalys39
- Odalis11
About 1 girl in 32,145 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 41,212 for Odalys 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 Ernestina test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Odalys's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Ernestina climbed just as high around 1933, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Ernestina's path sketches the road Odalys is walking now.
Odalys 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
Where Odalys is headed
Odalys looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 18% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Odalys beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Odalys in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Every letter is sounded, so Spanish speakers read it correctly at first sight.
- It belongs clearly to a living Cuban and Caribbean naming tradition.
- Six letters and three syllables, manageable to write.
- English readers do not know where the stress falls.
- Odalis, Odalys and Odalix are all in use and none is dominant.
- There is no documented meaning, only a Germanic neighbor.
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Frequently asked
- How many Odalyss are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,400 people named Odalys are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Odalys?
- Odalys is the most-used spelling in US records — 39 of the 50 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Odalis.
- How popular is the name Odalys in 2025?
- Odalys ranks #3780 among US girl names in 2025, with 39 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Odalys?
- About 1 in every 41,212 US girls born in 2025 was named Odalys — 39 in all.
- Will my child share the name Odalys with classmates?
- Odalys will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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