Odo

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Initialism of Oxford Dictionaries Online

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 22 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026

/oɗo/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated

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Odo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

  • ARArgentina1 in 474K(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 628K
  • USUnited States1 in 1.2M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

269 people, 2010

Record sources
101 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 474K (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Initialism of Oxford Dictionaries Online.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Odo is found

(measured from records)

Odo 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.

Where Odo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—2691 in 1.2M331Odo101
BR Brazil—1561 in 1.4M156—1
AR Argentina—961 in 474K96——
PL Poland—611 in 628K31—1
ES Spain—221 in 2.3M22—2
CH Switzerland—51 in 1.7M5—7
NG Nigeria#357———Odo53

269 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Odo is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Nigeria, Philippines, United States

    Also written Eudon, Odó, Odö

57 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Odo 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 Italian, var. original e também regional de Odo

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In German, alter deutscher männl. Vom., verselbst­ ständigte Kurzform von Namen, die mit »Ot-« (ahd. öt »Besitz, Reichtum«) gebildet sind (z. B.

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In apb, be straight, go straight forward; be correct and proper

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Italian, first-person singular present indicative of udire

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Dutch, an African Surinamese proverb

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)
199020002010Yuya Odo, b. 1990John Odo, b. 1990Satsuki Odo, b. 2004
  • Yuya Odob. 1990JPJapanese rugby union footballer
  • John Odob. 1990UScollege basketball player (2014–2015) Louisiana State
  • Satsuki Odob. 2004JPJapanese table tennis player

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)
FormalDear Mr Odo,
InformalHi Odo,

Evidence

(measured from records)

44 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 22 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Odo mean, and where does it come from?
Initialism of Oxford Dictionaries Online. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Odo?
In the etymology graph, Ott, Ota and Oddo are forms of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Odo?
It depends on the language: in Swahili /oɗo/; in Spanish /oðo/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Odo?
In the United States, the national register counted about 269 people named Odo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled odo. After it come Brazil, Argentina, Poland and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Odo most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Odo is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 474 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Odo?
In the United States, the national register counted 269 people named Odo in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
How common is Odo compared with other names?
In Nigeria, Odo is the 357th most common surname of 346,007 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Odo” — the 357th most common surname in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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