Odinn
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- OH-din
- Origin
- Old Norse
- US rank, 2025
- #7,675 for boys
Odinn is a boys' name of Old Norse origin, meaning “frenzy, inspiration”. In 2025 it ranked 7,675th for boys in the US (10 babies).
What does Odinn mean?
Old Norse: spelling of Odin; from Old Norse Odinn
“frenzy, inspiration”
Odin is the chief god of Norse mythology; Wednesday is named after Woden, his Old English counterpart.
Meaning borrowed from Odin.
Is Odinn a girl's or a boy's name?
Odinn is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Odinn in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #7,675among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 10about 1 in 170,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 10 boys in the US were named Odinn, making it the 7,675th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,599th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 18 boys. It first appears in the records in 2012.
Half of all the boys named Odinn in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 708 boys in the US were given Odinn or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #451, up from #7,675 for this spelling alone.
Odinn in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,675 |
| 2024 | 10 | #7,760 |
| 2023 | 7 | #9,757 |
| 2022 | 6 | #10,855 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,161 |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,599 |
| 2019 | 18 | #5,149 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,150 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,091 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,152 |
| 2015 | 14 | #5,995 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 6 | #10,722 |
| 2012 | 6 | #10,763 |
Names like Odinn
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Finn Finnegan Kayden Declan Cassian Ronan Raiden Brayden Brecken Deacon Cannon Callan
Other spellings of Odinn
More Old Norse names
Freya Ronnie Ralph Eric Astrid Colby Rafe Ralphie Erik Freyja Erick Bo Ronald Bjorn Erica Raife
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Odinn: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/odinn, updated 20 October 2026.