Oddie is a name for all genders, somewhat more commonly used for boys.
At least in the US, the name Oddie is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Oddie each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Oddie will meet someone with the same name. So, Oddie is a very special name!
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Oddie. Children named Oddie have made themselves scarce and you might rather know them from history books: Reaching pos. 1,971 Oddie ranked higher than ever in 1894. By comparison, there have been 95 years in which the first name Oddie has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2022. In general, parents name their newborns Oddie only once in a blue moon, so people with this name can consider themselves quite special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Oddie was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter O is quite rare as an initial letter for first names: only 1.5% of all common given names in the US begin with an O, which means that this initial occurs less than half as often as the other letters on average. Nevertheless, O is by no means the rarest initial. While A, J and K are the most common first letters of given names, U, X and Q are the least common initials of first names.
With five letters, the name Oddie is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Now do the math: Since 1.5% of all first names begin with an O, this initial occurs less than half as often as the other letters on average.
If your name is Oddie and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Oddie, you can simply say:
Orange
Dinosaur
Dinosaur
Igloo
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Oddie
Oddie
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
O
D
D
I
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
O
D
D
I
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Oddie sounds like this:
