Odin Boy
How popular is Odin?
#501 boy name in 2025
604 baby boys were named Odin in the US in 2025, making it the 501st most popular boy name.
Odin popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #501 for boys (▼ 25 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 604 boys |
| 10-year trend | Steady (-12% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #444 in 2015, #331 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2022 (1,023 boys) |
| Highest rank | #327 in 2021 |
| First recorded | 1884 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 100% boys, 0% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.4% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Odin counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Odin family of names ranked #433 for boys in 2025 (#422 the year before), with 708 babies in all.
| Spelling | Boys in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Odin | 604 | 85% |
| Oden | 74 | 10% |
| Odyn | 20 | 3% |
| Odinn | 10 | 1% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Odin is most popular
Babies named Odin per 1,000 boys born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Wyoming: 2.8 per 1,000 (16 boys)
- South Dakota: 2.6 per 1,000 (48 boys)
- Maine: 2.5 per 1,000 (48 boys)
- North Dakota: 2.2 per 1,000 (38 boys)
- Alaska: 1.9 per 1,000 (23 boys)
Odin by decade
| Decade | Baby boys | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6 | #848 |
| 1900s | 10 | #1,136 |
| 1910s | 88 | #1,745 |
| 1920s | 66 | #2,753 |
| 1930s | 12 | #3,287 |
| 1940s | 11 | #3,230 |
| 1960s | 18 | #3,536 |
| 1970s | 66 | #3,150 |
| 1980s | 67 | #3,856 |
| 1990s | 118 | #3,320 |
| 2000s | 1,209 | #982 |
| 2010s | 6,435 | #331 |
| 2020s | 5,176 | #327 |
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Questions
- Is Odin a boy or girl name?
- Odin is mostly a boy name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Odin were boys.
- How popular is the name Odin?
- 604 baby boys were named Odin in the US in 2025, making it the 501st most popular boy name.
- When was Odin most popular?
- Odin peaked in 2022, when 1,023 boys were given the name. Its highest rank was #327 in 2021.
- How many people are named Odin?
- 13,282 babies have been named Odin in the US since 1880. We estimate about 13,004 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 8.
- Where is Odin most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Odin was most common in Wyoming, at 2.8 of every 1,000 boys born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.