Meaning and history
Anglicized form of Old Norse Óðinn, derived from óðr meaning “frenzied, furious, inspired” and ultimately from Proto-Germanic *Wōdanaz. The name appears as Woden in Anglo-Saxon sources, including as the founder of several royal lineages in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and in continental forms such as Wuotan, Wotan, and Wodan, though he is best known from Norse sources. In Norse mythology, Odin is the highest of the gods, associated with war, wisdom, and death; he is Frigg’s husband and lives in Valhalla, where slain warriors go, and is commonly portrayed as a one-eyed old man with two ravens who report the world’s events. At Ragnarök, he is said to be killed while fighting the wolf Fenrir.
20062006: 130 births, rank #1,284
2007: 181 births, rank #1,038
2008: 202 births, rank #983
2009: 202 births, rank #982
2010: 247 births, rank #857
20112011: 317 births, rank #718
2012: 375 births, rank #638
2013: 453 births, rank #572
2014: 604 births, rank #475
2015: 690 births, rank #444
20162016: 836 births, rank #383
2017: 903 births, rank #365
2018: 999 births, rank #336
2019: 1,011 births, rank #331
2020: 992 births, rank #331
20212021: 1,009 births, rank #327
2022: 1,023 births, rank #331
2023: 903 births, rank #361
2024: 645 births, rank #476
20252025: 604 births, rank #501
Odin moved from #478 to #502 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2022, with 1,023 births.