Girl · Germanic, through French
Odette
Say it: oh-DET
Meaning
Feminine diminutive of Eudes/Odon, from Germanic od 'wealth'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Fashionable in early 20th-century France and rare today.
Its wave through time
Popular now
In the United States
- 3,222 babies given this name since 1894
- At its height in 1905, about 1 in 14,600 girls
- 143 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
Famous bearers
- Odette de Champdivers, companion of Charles VI
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Where this comes from
- Well-known works of literature
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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