Odyssey
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- AH-dih-see
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #4,877 for girls
Odyssey is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “long adventurous journey”. In 2025 it ranked 4,877th for girls in the US (27 babies).
What does Odyssey mean?
English: English word from Homer's epic, via Greek Odysseia
“long adventurous journey”
From Homer's Odyssey, the epic of Odysseus's ten-year voyage home after the Trojan War.
Is Odyssey a girl's or a boy's name?
Odyssey is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 27 girls and 8 boys in the US.
How popular is Odyssey in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,877among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 27about 1 in 60,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 9% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 27 girls in the US were named Odyssey, making it the 4,877th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,663rd. Its busiest year was 2022, with 39 girls. It first appears in the records in 1982. 8 boys were also named Odyssey in 2025 (8,906th for boys).
Half of all the girls named Odyssey in the US since 1880 were born between 2000 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 77% of the babies named Odyssey in the US were girls.
Odyssey in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,877 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,145 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,123 |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,825 |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,715 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,663 |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,436 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,236 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,836 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,398 |
| 2015 | 32 | #4,402 |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,454 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,368 |
| 2012 | 22 | #5,892 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,719 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,786 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,338 |
| 2008 | 10 | #10,802 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,626 |
| 2006 | 11 | #9,897 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,595 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,551 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,294 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,810 |
| 2001 | 31 | #4,021 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,146 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,571 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,794 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,839 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,569 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,509 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,091 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,581 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,057 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,328 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,403 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,525 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,593 |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,820 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,745 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,304 |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,013 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,369 |
Names like Odyssey
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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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, “Odyssey: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/odyssey, updated 20 October 2026.