Ody
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ədi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ody is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Côte d’Ivoire than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): scattered. from Ó Donndubháin, see Donovan .
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M(measured from records)
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 26K
- BZBelize≈1 in 108K
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.
- Côte d’Ivoire (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 128 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Côte d’Ivoire, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): scattered. from Ó Donndubháin, see Donovan . O’Dowd O’Farrell • Current frequencies: GB 1058, Ireland 93 • GB frequency 1881: 85 • Main GB location 1881: Lancs; London; Warwicks • Current frequencies: GB 1052, Ireland 1595 • GB frequency 1881: 108
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ody 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 191 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 957 | 1 in 221K | 957 | — | 1 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 362K | — | Ody | 15 |
| FR France | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 239K | 23 | — | — |
| US United States | 262 | 1 in 1.3M | 262 | Ody | 128 |
| CH Switzerland | 59 | 1 in 142K | 59 | Ody | 6 |
| BZ Belize | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Ody | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Firmin Odyb. 1859CHSwiss carpenter and politician (1859-1920)
- Louis Odyb. 1869CHSwiss politician (1869-1908)
- François Odyb. 1896CHneurosurgeon (1896-1957)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 75 | #48,328 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 66 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 57 | #48,328 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 45 | #55,051 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 44 | #31,541 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 24 | #54,020 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 21 | #55,051 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1984 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1987 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1961 | 5 | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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 Ody mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): scattered. from Ó Donndubháin, see Donovan . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Ody?
- A machine transcription gives /ədi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ody have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 thousand people named Ody in Côte d’Ivoire, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ody?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 957 people named Ody, about 1 in 221 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/odyThe 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, “Ody”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.