Odessa
loc · Latin script
Meaning: A locale in Ukraine:
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Odessa is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 56K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 1.3K
- FIFinland1 in 12K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 300 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈24,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A locale in Ukraine:
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Odessa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Odessa | 2 |
| US United States | 5,909 | 1 in 56K | 5.8K | Odessa | 300 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 59K | listed | Odessa | 60 |
| EG Egypt | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Odessa | 6 |
| IT Italy | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 86K | 1 | — | 8 |
| GY Guyana | 573 | 1 in 1.3K | 573 | — | 10 |
| FI Finland | 470 | 1 in 12K | 485 | — | 5 |
| GR Greece | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Odessa | 5 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
Odessa is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, city, TX; city, Ukraine
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In German, weibl. Vom., identisch mit dem
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Sierva de Alá
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
[Ignoto]
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Dutch, Odessa, a city and oblast in Ukraine.
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Odessa Warren Greyb. 1883USMilliner, entrepreneur and performer (1883-1960)
- Odessa Grady Clayb. 1917USmother of boxer Muhammad Ali (1917-1994)
- Odessa Harrisb. 1936USmusical artist (1936-2007)
- Odessa Clevelandb. 1944USAmerican actress
- Odessa Turnerb. 1964USAmerican football player
- Odessa Raeb. 1982CACanadian film producer
- Chelsey Leeb. 1989USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player (born 1989)
- Odessa Youngb. 1998AUAustralian actress
- Odessa A'zionb. 2000USAmerican actress and voice actress
- Tiana Odessab. 2004AUgymnast
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 42 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5.8K | #3,506 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 573 | #150 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 485 | #1,103 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 470 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 193 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 62 | #3,506 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #37,572 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1998 | 6 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 1 | #19,201 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | — | — |
| IT Italy | Il Grande Libro dei Nomi per Bebè (2020) | — | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | The Penguin Book of Baby Names (David Pickering) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Odessa mean, and where does it come from?
- A locale in Ukraine: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Odessa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 24 thousand people named Odessa in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled odessa.
- Where is Odessa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Odessa is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 1.3 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Odessa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,909 people named Odessa in 2020, about 1 in 56 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/odessaThe 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, “Odessa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.