O'Dell
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/oʊˈdɛɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
O'Dell is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 11K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 13K
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 4.9K
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
- 413 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Côte d’Ivoire, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Odell in US United States, GB United Kingdom, IE Ireland and 4 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 3
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
O'Dell 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 | — | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Odell | 7 |
| US United States | #935 | 31,349 | 1 in 11K | 31K | Odell | 413 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | — | Odell | 1 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Odell | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 2.9K | Odell | 153 |
| BF Burkina Faso | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | — | Odell | 1 |
| IE Ireland | #853 | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 9K | — | Odell | 12 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | — | O'Dell | 27 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Scott O'Dellb. 1898USnot in their usual nameAmerican children's writer (1898–1989)
- Denis O'Dellb. 1923GBnot in their usual nameBritish film producer (1923–2021)
- Billy O'Dellb. 1933USnot in their usual nameAmerican baseball player (1933-2018)
- Claire O'Dellb. 1959USnot in their usual nameAmerican novelist
- Tony O'Dellb. 1960USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (born 1960)
- Tawni O'Dellb. 1964USnot in their usual nameAmerican writer
- Nancy O'Dellb. 1966USnot in their usual nameAmerican television host and entertainment journalist
- Frankie O'Dellb. 1971USnot in their usual nameAmerican poker player
- Jennifer O'Dellb. 1974USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1974-)
- Eric O'Dellb. 1990CAnot in their usual nameCanadian ice hockey player
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 2.9K | #2,683 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce O'Dell?
- A machine transcription gives /oʊˈdɛɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does O'Dell have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 107 thousand people named O'Dell in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled odell.
- How common is the name O'Dell?
- In the United States, the national register counted 31,349 people named O'Dell in 2010, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is O'Dell compared with other names?
- In Ireland, O'Dell is the 853rd most common surname of 73,729 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about O'Dell?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/o'dellThe 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, “O'Dell” — the 853rd most common surname in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.