Odetta
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Odetta is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Polish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: US folk singer; pers.
- USUnited States1 in 851K◐
- GYGuyana1 in 4.1K
- JMJamaica1 in 110K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈724 ●
- Sources
- 138 ●
- 1 in 4.1K ◐
across 8 countries
6.7K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Meaning & origin●
US folk singer; pers. name
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 391 | 5.4K rec. | 1 in 851K | 391 | Odetta | 138 |
| GY Guyana | #121 | 184 | 657 rec. | 1 in 4.1K | 184 | Odetta | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 184 | 184 rec. | — | listed | Odetta | 16 |
| AU Australia | — | 103 | 95 rec. | — | 1 | Odetta | 20 |
| PL Poland | — | 81 | — | 1 in 473K | 81 | — | — |
| CA Canada | — | 57 | 58 rec. | — | — | Odetta | 15 |
| IT Italy | — | 53 | 53 rec. | — | listed | Odetta | 7 |
| JM Jamaica | — | 43 | 43 rec. | — | — | Odetta | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 39△ | 6 rec. | 1 in 443K | 39 | Odetta | 5 |
| DE Germany | — | 28 | 25 rec. | — | — | Odetta | 12 |
| DZ Algeria | — | 13 | 13 rec. | — | — | Odetta | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 12 | — | 1 in 892K | 12 | — | — |
Roughly 391 people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 851K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English6.9K71%
- Polish4244%
- 3924%
- Spanish3564%
- English (Guyana)2172%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 6,914 | 71% |
| Polish | 424 | 4% |
| 392 | 4% | |
| Spanish | 356 | 4% |
| English (Guyana) | 217 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1900 | 5 |
| 1904 | 5 |
| 1907 | 5 |
| 1911 | 8 |
| 1912 | 5 |
| 1913 | 10 |
| 1914 | 11 |
| 1915 | 11 |
| 1916 | 16 |
| 1917 | 19 |
| 1918 | 16 |
| 1919 | 14 |
| 1920 | 13 |
| 1921 | 14 |
| 1922 | 22 |
| 1923 | 15 |
| 1924 | 21 |
| 1925 | 16 |
| 1926 | 15 |
| 1927 | 8 |
| 1928 | 7 |
| 1929 | 9 |
| 1930 | 14 |
| 1931 | 9 |
| 1932 | 7 |
| 1933 | 19 |
| 1934 | 7 |
| 1935 | 10 |
| 1936 | 6 |
| 1937 | 6 |
| 1938 | 10 |
| 1939 | 5 |
| 1941 | 8 |
| 1943 | 9 |
| 1945 | 5 |
| 1946 | 6 |
| 1949 | 5 |
| 1950 | 12 |
| 1951 | 7 |
| 1952 | 5 |
| 1953 | 8 |
| 1954 | 8 |
| 1955 | 5 |
| 1957 | 6 |
| 1959 | 5 |
| 1960 | 16 |
| 1961 | 14 |
| 1962 | 9 |
| 1963 | 18 |
| 1964 | 14 |
| 1965 | 6 |
| 1966 | 9 |
| 1967 | 12 |
| 1968 | 8 |
| 1969 | 7 |
| 1970 | 11 |
| 1971 | 16 |
| 1972 | 7 |
| 1973 | 7 |
| 1974 | 10 |
| 1976 | 7 |
| 2022 | 5 |
| 2024 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 63 years between 1900–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Odettab. 1930USAmerican singer (1930–2008)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 30 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 391 | #24,570 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 184 | #411 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 81 | #1,750 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 81 | #1,750 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 39 | #9,826 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #21,116 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #22,492 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 23 | #18,129 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1922 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1924 | 21 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1933 | 19 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1917 | 19 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 93 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Odetta?
- We estimate roughly 724 people bear Odetta (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Odetta have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 391 people bear Odetta in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled odetta.
- Where is Odetta most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Odetta is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 4.1 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Odetta compared with other names?
- In Guyana, Odetta is the 121st most common given name of 22,162 given names recorded there.
- Is Odetta a male or female name?
- Odetta is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Odetta mean?
- Recorded meaning: US folk singer; pers.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Odetta” — the 121st most common given name in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.