Odete
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Odete is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Mozambique it is the 89th most common given name.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 2.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 4.1K
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 110 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
51,699 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Odete 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #360 | 51,699 | 1 in 4.1K | 69K | Odete | 110 |
| MZ Mozambique | #89 | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | 1 | Odete | 16 |
| PT Portugal | #269 | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | listed | Odete | 62 |
| AO Angola | #466 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 1 | Odete | 21 |
| US United States | — | 260 | 1 in 1.3M | 256 | Odete | 90 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Odete | 8 |
51,699 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the portuguese-names-barbosa-1990 register; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
- Odete Amaralb. 1917BRBrazilian singer
- Odete Larab. 1929BRBrazilian actress (1929-2015)
- Odete Santosb. 1941PTPortuguese politician
- Odete Fátima Machado da Silveirab. 1953BRBrazilian geologist
- Gretchenb. 1959BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian recording artist, singer
- Odete Semedob. 1959GWpolitician in Guinea-Bissau
- Odete Cruz e Silvab. 1960PTPortuguese scientist
- Odete DouradoBRBrazilian architectural historian
- Odete Lopez LopesBRCarcinologist
- Odete GonçalvesPTresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-0875-3512
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 26 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 69K | #621 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 68K | #225 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 52K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 52K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 52K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 51K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 51K | #553 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 51K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 49K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 43K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 31K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 16K | — |
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
- Is Odete a male or female name?
- Odete is a female 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.
- What are other forms of the name Odete?
- In the etymology graph, Odelia and Odetta are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Odete have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 52 thousand people named Odete, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled odete.
- How common is the name Odete?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 51,699 people named Odete in 2022, about 1 in 4.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Odete compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Odete is the 360th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Odete?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/odeteThe 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, “Odete” — the 360th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.