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How popular is “Odyssey” in the USA?

Number of people named “Odyssey” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Odyssey” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Odyssey” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Odyssey” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Odyssey” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Odyssey” by birth year

This chart shows how “Odyssey” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1982 10 0.000002851 10 100%
1983 6 0.000001732 6 100%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 100%
1986 8 0.000002249 8 100%
1987 6 0.000001664 6 100%
1988 14 0.000003789 14 100%
1989 12 0.000003121 12 100%
1990 6 0.000001518 6 100%
1991 8 0.000002054 8 100%
1992 10 0.000002603 10 100%
1993 7 0.000001857 7 100%
1994 12 0.000003228 12 100%
1995 11 0.000003004 11 100%
1996 11 0.000003016 11 100%
1997 18 0.000004964 13 5 44%
1998 17 0.000004622 17 100%
1999 24 0.000006497 24 100%
2000 22 0.00000582 22 100%
2001 31 0.000008281 31 100%
2002 13 0.000003478 13 100%
2003 18 0.000004734 18 100%
2004 22 0.000005758 22 100%
2005 22 0.000005722 22 100%
2006 11 0.00000278 11 100%
2007 9 0.000002251 9 100%
2008 10 0.000002544 10 100%
2009 17 0.00000445 17 100%
2010 11 0.000002976 11 100%
2011 11 0.000003007 11 100%
2012 22 0.000006015 22 100%
2013 16 0.000004389 16 100%
2014 24 0.000006475 24 100%
2015 32 0.000008647 32 100%
2016 19 0.000005179 19 100%
2017 14 0.000003915 14 100%
2018 33 0.000009386 33 100%
2019 31 0.000008931 31 100%
2020 28 0.000008382 21 7 50%
2021 34 0.000010036 28 6 65%
2022 46 0.000013597 39 7 70%
2023 33 0.000009966 25 8 52%
2024 24 0.00000721 24 100%

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