Wodan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: the Germanic chief god; Wotan, Odin or Woden
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Wodan is a male given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the Netherlands.
- Netherlands (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 5 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)the Germanic chief god; Wotan, Odin or Woden
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Wodan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | — | 9 | — | 1 |
| IT Italy | — | 1 | — | — |
| IN India | — | 1 | — | — |
| DE Germany | — | listed | — | — |
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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); the duden-vornamen-2007 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)Wodan is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In goh, The supreme deity of the Germanic pantheon, coresponding to the Scandinavian god Odin
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In got, romanization of 𐍅𐍉𐌳𐌰𐌽
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, inflection of wōd:
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 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Wodan mean, and where does it come from?
- the Germanic chief god; Wotan, Odin or Woden Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Wodan?
- In the etymology graph, Odin and Óðinn are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Wodan a male or female name?
- Wodan 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 Wodan have the most bearers?
- Wodan is most frequently recorded in the Netherlands.
What do you want to know about Wodan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wodanThe 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, “Wodan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.