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The first name 
Odena

Odena is a female first name.

Odena – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Odena has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Odena. That means that a girl named Odena is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Odena.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Odena

Odena -
at home in

Meeting a woman or girl named Odena is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Odena can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Odena. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Odena living in one state or another (if your name is Odena and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Odena is in Texas, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in Texas, only 0.00004% of all female residents are named Odena – that’s just one in 2,241,104! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 5 women with that name. So, if your name is Odena, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.

Odena has 5 letters 
and begins with an O

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter O is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 1.0% of all common girls' names in the US begin with an O. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.

With five letters, the name Odena 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.

Therefore: As 1.0% of all girls' names begin with an O, this initial letter is significantly less common than the other letters on average. However, individual girls' names with O are really popular, the most common currently being Olivia.

Other names with 
O, d, e, n and a

If you take all the letters in the name Odena – O, d, e, n and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Odean or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Odena

If your name is Odena 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...

This is how you spell the name Odena

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Odena, you can simply say:

Orange

Dinosaur

Elephant

Nut

Apple

This is how the name Odena is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Odena in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Odena

Odena

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Odena

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Odena is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

O
D
E
N
A

Have you ever waved the name Odena

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
E
N
A

Beeping like crazy...

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. Odena sounds like this: