Odetta
A name most Poles have never met, given to just a handful of girls each year, yet more arrived last year than in years past. It comes from a Slavic root meaning "wealthy".
Odetta Pronunciation
Odetta is pronounced o-DET-tah (/ɔˈdɛtta/).
What Odetta means
Where Odetta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Odetta grows from a Slavic root that means wealthy, zamożna in Polish. The name points to abundance, a full granary, a household that lacks nothing. Wealth here reads as standing more than luck.
That sense stayed with the name as it traveled. One bearer carried it far. Odetta Holmes, the American singer known simply as Odetta, recorded blues and spirituals from the early 1950s. She sang at the 1963 March on Washington, and her single name became a signature.
On a Polish class register, Odetta sits apart from the Annas and Zofias in the same row. A teacher reads it once and remembers it. The name asks for no diminutive, and none is standard. What it offers a child stays plain in the meaning it was given: wealthy, zamożna.
How many people are named Odetta
1 in 300584 women in Poland is named Odetta. 75 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4136 among female names.
Odetta's popularity over time
5 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #949 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2019.
Where Odetta is most popular
Odetta is most popular in Masovian, 510% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025).
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Masovian2 girls born+510%
Odetta as a middle name
Odetta is a first name for 75 women in Poland and a middle name for another 36, a 68/32 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1169th, between Myriam (36) and Serena (36).
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#1167 Maryam36
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#1168 Myriam36
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#1169 Odetta36
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#1170 Serena36
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#1171 Sylvie36