Odile
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From Germ. root od- 'wealth'; saint Odile/Ottilia
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɔdil/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Odile is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 12K
- USUnited States1 in 512K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 324 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈39,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Germ. root od- 'wealth'; saint Odile/Ottilia.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Odile counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #260 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 93K | Odile | 324 |
| CM Cameroon | #169 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Odile | 20 |
| MG Madagascar | #238 | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Odile | 10 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #862 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Odile | 8 |
| CN China | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 484K | — | Odile | 8 |
| BE Belgium | #946 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 26 | Odile | 72 |
| BJ Benin | #392 | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Odile | 12 |
| US United States | — | 650 | 1 in 512K | 637 | Odile | 167 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Odile is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, French; medieval German name, feminine form of Otto.
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French: from the medieval Germanic name Odila, a derivative of od meaning ‘prosperity’, ‘wealth’ (see Otto). This was the name of an 8th-century saint who founded a Benedictine convent at what is now Odilienburg in Alsace. She is the patron saint of Alsace. Ofra ° Variant spelling of Ophrah.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In French, Origine germanique, de od- « richesse » et wil- « combat ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Du germanique odal, «patrimoine, richesse».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Du germanique od, « richesse, fortune ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gabrielle Dorziatb. 1880FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress (1880-1979)
- Odile Defrayeb. 1888BEBelgian cyclist (1888–1965)
- Odile Rodinb. 1937FRFrench actress (1937–2018)
- Odile Barskib. 1946FRFrench writer and screenwriter
- Odile Jacobb. 1952FRFrench psychologist and publisher
- Odile Decqb. 1955FRFrench architect and academic
- Odile Schmittb. 1960FRFrench actress (1960–2020)
- Marie Cavallierb. 1976FRnot in their usual namesecond wife of Prince Joachim of Denmark
- Odile Ahouanwanoub. 1991BJTrack and field athlete
- Odile van Aanholtb. 1998NLDutch sailor
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 68 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2023 | 93K | #3,224 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 637 | #17,112 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 1956 | 175 | #662 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2024 | 26 | #363 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 13 | #17,112 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 6 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Odile mean, and where does it come from?
- From Germ. root od- 'wealth'; saint Odile/Ottilia. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- How do you pronounce Odile?
- A machine transcription gives /ɔdil/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Odile a male or female name?
- Odile 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 are other forms of the name Odile?
- In the etymology graph, Otilia, Ute and Odilia are forms of the same name in other languages; Odette is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does Odile have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 39 thousand people named Odile in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled odile.
- How common is the name Odile?
- In the United States, the national register counted 650 people named Odile in 2020, about 1 in 512 thousand residents.
- How common is Odile compared with other names?
- In France, Odile is the 260th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/odileThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Odile” — the 260th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.