Odile

Where Odile comes from

Odile hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1882
    First appearance
    #740 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1888
    Odile Defraye born
    Belgian cyclist
  3. 1898
    Peak, #719
    21 babies named Odile — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1899
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,181.
  5. 1991
    Odile Ahouanwanou born
    Track and field athlete
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Odile Defraye · Belgian cyclist, 1888–1965
  • Odile Ahouanwanou · Track and field athlete, born 1991
  • Odile Decq · French architect and academic, born 1955
  • Odile van Aanholt · Dutch sailor, born 1998
  • Odile Sankara · Burkinabè filmmaker, born 1963

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.