Öda
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Öda is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Swedish ø̄þa, from Old Norse eyða, from Proto-Germanic *auþijaną. Cognate with Icelandic eyða, Danish øde, German veröden.
- FIFinland1 in 174K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 188K
- NONorway1 in 210K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 47 (measured from records)
- 1 in 174K (inferred from the name graph)
1,765 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Oda in US United States, PA Panama, ES Spain.
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)- Old Swedishø̄þa(measured from records)
- Old Norseeyða(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*auþijaną(measured from records)
- Old Swedishø̄þe(measured from records)
From Old Swedish ø̄þa, from Old Norse eyða, from Proto-Germanic *auþijaną. Cognate with Icelandic eyða, Danish øde, German veröden. Based on the adjective öde (“waste, desolate”) from Old Swedish ø̄þe = Danish øde, Old Saxon ôthi, Old High German ôdi (“empty”), Old Norse auðr (“desolate”).
Cited for this meaning 2
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Öda 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 | — | 1,765 | 1 in 188K | 1.8K | Oda | 47 |
| ES Spain | — | 59 | 1 in 848K | 59 | Oda | 23 |
| IN India | — | 33 | 1 in 40M | 33 | — | 2 |
| FI Finland | — | 32 | 1 in 174K | 50 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 27 | 1 in 434K | 27 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 26 | 1 in 210K | 22K | — | 15 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 22 | 1 in 382K | 22 | — | 2 |
| PA Panama | #675 | — | — | — | Oda | 15 |
1,765 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Öda mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Swedish ø̄þa, from Old Norse eyða, from Proto-Germanic *auþijaną. Cognate with Icelandic eyða, Danish øde, German veröden. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- Is Öda a male or female name?
- Öda 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 Öda have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Öda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oda.
- Where is Öda most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Öda is densest in Finland — about 1 in 174 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Öda?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,765 people named Öda in 2010, about 1 in 188 thousand residents.
- How common is Öda compared with other names?
- In Panama, Öda is the 675th most common surname of 39,844 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Öda?
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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%B6daThe 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, “Öda” — the 675th most common surname in Panama. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.