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Odell

As a gender-neutral name, Odell is understood to mean "Woad hill (a dye plant)". It had its heyday in the 1920s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is on the rarer side without being unusual in the registry. It has appeared in U.S. birth records in nearly every decade since 1900, a genuinely long run.

Old EnglishOld English
Etymology"Woad hill" (a dye plant)
Births by decade
1900s
682
1910s
2,984
1920s
4,406
1930s
3,081
1940s
2,446
1950s
1,971
1960s
1,092
1970s
740
1980s
505
1990s
369
2000s
198
2010s
180
Peaked in the 1920s · 18,654 total U.S. births since 1900