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How popular is the name Odin?

Births per year, rank history and how many Odins are alive today.

Odin (male) is an uncommon boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 462nd in 2025 with 84 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2022, when 131 babies were given the name, the 331st most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 479 in 2024 before climbing back to the 462nd place it holds today. Numbers have been falling in recent years. Odin is one spelling of a name also recorded as Oden; the combined figures below cover every spelling.

Across all spellings of the name, the Odin you are most likely to meet is around 4 years old. Half of all Odins born in England and Wales are between 4 and 10, and there are at least 1,300 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Odin - on average, only one in every 234 such rooms contains a Odin.

How many babies are named Odin each year?

Includes all spellings: Odin, Oden. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

050100200020201996: 51997: 61998: 31999: 62000: 52001: 32002: 82003: 102004: 52005: 82006: 92007: 152008: 142009: 102010: 182011: 162012: 282013: 292014: 362015: 522016: 672017: 782018: 922019: 992020: 1152021: 1082022: 1362023: 1272024: 902025: 91actual

Where does the Odin spelling rank?

1101001,0005,000200020201996: ranked 2,0201997: ranked 2,8591998: ranked 2,9011999: ranked 1,8502000: ranked 2,1422001: ranked 3,1342002: ranked 1,6512003: ranked 1,5132004: ranked 2,5782005: ranked 1,9912006: ranked 1,8922007: ranked 1,4402008: ranked 1,9532009: ranked 1,9812010: ranked 1,3442011: ranked 1,6882012: ranked 9982013: ranked 9762014: ranked 8372015: ranked 6922016: ranked 5802017: ranked 5462018: ranked 4652019: ranked 4492020: ranked 4042021: ranked 4232022: ranked 3312023: ranked 3472024: ranked 4792025: ranked 462

Where does the Oden spelling rank?

1101001,0005,000200020201997: ranked 2,8592008: ranked 3,6872011: ranked 4,6472015: ranked 3,9082016: ranked 4,0232017: ranked 2,7342018: ranked 3,4122019: ranked 2,2662020: ranked 1,6352021: ranked 2,3012022: ranked 3,4502023: ranked 3,5242024: ranked 2,9222025: ranked 2,952

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.

Chart: babies named Odin per year in England and Wales, 1996 to 2025, peaking at about 136 in 2022
Odin: births per year in England and Wales, 1996-2025. Free to share with a link back.

Common questions

When was the name Odin most popular?

Odin peaked in 2022, when 136 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.

How many people are called Odin?

At least 1,300 people named Odin in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.

How old is the typical Odin?

Most living Odins are between 4 and 10; the most common age is about 4.

Is Odin becoming more or less popular?

Declining: numbers have been falling in recent years.






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