Odana
given name · Latin script
Meaning: food; boiled rice; grain cooked with milk; cloud
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
Odana is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 375K(measured from records)
- USUnited States≈1 in 32M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- 1 in 375K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)food; boiled rice; grain cooked with milk; cloud
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Where in the world
(measured from records)Odana 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 32M | — | Odana | 20 |
| GY Guyana | 2 | 1 in 375K | 2 | Odana | 1 |
| EC Ecuador | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| CL Chile | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| IN India | — | — | listed | — | 2 |
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: Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the hindu-names-gandhi-1993 register. 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Odana is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Estonian, essive singular of oda
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pi, boiled rice
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 2 | #592 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 2 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2022 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1998 | 1 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2019 | 1 | — |
| IN India | The Penguin Book of Hindu Names for Boys (Gandhi, 1993) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Odana mean, and where does it come from?
- food; boiled rice; grain cooked with milk; cloud Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
- Is Odana a male or female name?
- Odana is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Odana have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 people named Odana in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled odana.
- Where is Odana most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Odana is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 375 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Odana?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 2 people named Odana in 2025, about 1 in 375 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/odanaThe 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, “Odana”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.