Óðinn
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Odin
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Þjóðskrá Íslands, 2026
/ˈouːðɪn/(recorded in a dictionary) Icelandic · from Wiktionary
Óðinn is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Iceland than in any other country.
- ISIceland1 in 776(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 534K
- SESweden1 in 1.7M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Iceland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- 1 in 776 (inferred from the name graph)
452 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Odin
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Óðinn counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | #885 | 452 | 1 in 776 | 452 | Óðinn | 13 |
| DK Denmark | — | 11 | 1 in 534K | 11 | — | 3 |
| SE Sweden | — | 6 | 1 in 1.7M | 6 | — | — |
| FO Faroe Islands | — | — | — | 1 | — | 1 |
452 people counted by Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry), 2026. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Hagstova Føroya — Given names, living population (PX-Web, 2024). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Óðinn Valdimarssonb. 1937ISIcelandic singer (1937-2001)
- Óðinn IngibergssonISIcelandic sound designer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Óðinn mean, and where does it come from?
- Odin Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Óðinn?
- In the etymology graph, Odin and Wodan are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Óðinn?
- In Icelandic /ˈouːðɪn/ (Wiktionary).
- How common is the name Óðinn?
- In Iceland, the national register counted 452 people named Óðinn in 2026, about 1 in 776 residents.
- How common is Óðinn compared with other names?
- In Iceland, Óðinn is the 885th most common given name of 3,704 given names recorded there.
- Is Óðinn a male or female name?
- Óðinn is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Óðinn have the most bearers?
- In Iceland, the national register counted about 452 people named Óðinn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled óðinn.
- Where is Óðinn most common?
- Óðinn is densest in Iceland, where the national register counts about 1 in 776 people carrying it.
What do you want to know about Óðinn?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%B3%C3%B0innThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Óðinn” — the 885th most common given name in Iceland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.