Odlum
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɔdlʉm/(machine-generated) Norwegian · model-generated
Odlum is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- AUAustralia
- CACanada
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)Odlum is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, An English name of German derivation, an earlier form being Adlam, associated with Co. Offaly since the mid-seventeenth century. MIF
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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)- Robert Emmet Odlumb. 1851USSwimming instructor; first person to dive off Brooklyn Bridge (1851-1885)
- Victor Odlumb. 1880CACanadian politician (1880–1971)
- Hortense Odlumb. 1881American businesswoman (1881-1970)
- Floyd Odlumb. 1892USAmerican businessman
- Jerome Odlumb. 1905USAmerican writer and screenwriter (1905-1954)
- Jacqueline Cochranb. 1906USnot in their usual nameAmerican aviator and businesswoman (1906–1980)
- George Odlumb. 1934LCSaint Lucian diplomat (1934-2003)
- Dave OdlumIEIrish musician
- Dean OdlumIEGaelic football 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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Odlum?
- In Norwegian /ɔdlʉm/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Odlum have the most bearers?
- Odlum is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/odlumThe 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, “Odlum”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.