Given name
Odete
“a wealthy woman; one who is prosperous”
Odete is a variant of Odetta. One French interpretation is “a wealthy woman; one who is prosperous.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Odete is a variant of Odetta. One French interpretation is “a wealthy woman; one who is prosperous.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Odete is a variant of Odetta. An origin associated with Odetta is French.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1974. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Odete through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 0 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 1974
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1974. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 260 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Odete’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Odete has a conventional equivalent in the French form Odette. Odete has a related form in Odetta.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Odete
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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