Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Odon isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Odon through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 17
- 17 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1916
- 7 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 boys is 5 in 2007. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 1916. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 300 as a first name in 2020; 211 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Odon’s family of names
In Polish usage, Odon shares an earlier linguistic root with Otto. Odon has a related form in Odin. In Polish usage, Odon has a conventional equivalent in the English form Otto.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Odon has relatives in 6 languages.
5 related names in 6 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Odon
- Odon of PoznańDuke of Greater Poland and Poznań1145–1194
- Odon RazanakolonaCatholic archbishopborn 1946
- Odon de ChâtillonCatholic cardinal1050–1101
- Odon de Thoire1354–1414
- Odon ValletFrench historian of religionborn 1947
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
If you love Odon, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
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“filled with happiness”
>99% boys