Odyssey is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Odyssey is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Odyssey. In the SmartGenius ranking, Odyssey is #4,597 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Odyssey.
In fact, the name Odyssey did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Odyssey seemed to be more popular than ever in 2022. Although the name never ranked higher than #3,077, 45 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Odyssey, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Odyssey was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The first name Odyssey is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 72 Americans in total bear this name. And these 72 women are located in only four states: California, New York, North Carolina and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Odyssey and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Odyssey in relation to it’s female population is Texas. And yet even there, only one in 287,321 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Odyssey.
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 seven letters, the name Odyssey has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. 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.
If your name is Odyssey 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 Odyssey, you can simply say:
Orange
Dinosaur
Yoyo
Sun
Sun
Elephant
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Odyssey
Odyssey
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
O
D
Y
S
S
E
Y
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
Y
S
S
E
Y
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. Odyssey sounds like this:
