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Odessa

Pronounced /oʊˈdɛsə/

Rank in 2024
#1,578
Born in 2024
133
Peak year
1920 · #302
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 133 girls were named Odessa, about 1 in every 12,129.
  • It peaked in 1920 with 464 babies, ranked #302.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 18,372 girls have been named Odessa since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Odessa per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0.4
    Greatest
  2. 0.2
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 7,629 babies, 0.37 per 1,000. Silent: 4,179 babies, 0.20 per 1,000. Boomers: 2,202 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Gen X: 826 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Millennials: 693 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Z: 833 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,207 babies, 0.06 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

Borrowed from Russian Оде́сса (Odéssa), named after an Ancient Greek settlement thought to have been located nearby. Ancient Greek Ὀδησσός (Odēssós). Compare Ukrainian Оде́са (Odésa). The city was on the former Turkish territory of Yedisan, which may have influenced the choice of name. Yedisan means "seven titles" i.e. tribes, from yedi + san. ==== Proper noun ==== Odessa A locale in Ukraine: A port city, the administrative center of Odessa Raion and Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, situated on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. Alternative form: Odesa A raion of Odesa Oblast, Ukraine.

  • A female given name.
Origin
Not recorded
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From Wiktionary’s entry for Odessa, CC BY-SA 4.0.