Odessie
Feminine
Odessie is a rare girl's name from the turn of the twentieth century, a softer Odessa. Said aloud it is close to odyssey, the word English made from the longest journey home in literature.
How old is the name Odessie?
Odessie first appears in US birth records in 1897 — 128 years ago. The typical Odessie alive today was born around 1922, making them about 103 years old. Fewer than a hundred people named Odessie are estimated to be alive in the US today — a true one-of-a-kind name.
When was the name Odessie most popular?
Odessie peaked in 1904, reaching #1251 nationally. See the whole 1904 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Odessie
In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus spends ten years at the war in Troy and ten more trying to get home to Ithaca, past a one-eyed giant, a witch who turns men into pigs and the singing Sirens, while his wife Penelope waits and holds off her suitors. English made his name a word: an odyssey is any long, wandering journey. Odessie came from Odessa, not from Homer, but it shares its sound with a story about finding the way home.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Odessie may be Odessa with a softer ending, and nothing records why the ending changed.
Pronouncing Odessie
oh-DESS-ee
Three syllables with the stress on the second.
Nicknames for Odessie
Limited
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
- 1897
- Most girls named
- 192332 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1251reached in 1904
- Change vs 1948
- −16.7%5 in 1949, from 6
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.
Odessies among us
Fewer than a hundred people named Odessie are estimated to be alive in the US today — a true one-of-a-kind name.
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Odessie sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Soft and easy to say.
- Almost certain to be the only one.
- Comes with Dessie as a ready pet form.
- People will write Odessa or Odessy.
- It reads as a name of a much earlier generation.
- It has no documented meaning of its own.
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Frequently asked
- How many Odessies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. Fewer than a hundred people named Odessie are estimated to be alive in the US today — a true one-of-a-kind name.
- How popular is the name Odessie in 2025?
- Odessie is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Odessie with classmates?
- Odessie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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