Odette
Vanishingly rare in Poland: only 14 women carry it, and most Poles have never met one. Two of them were born just last year, a small first stir behind a Germanic name that meant "wealthy".
Odette Pronunciation
Odette is pronounced o-DET-te (/ɔˈdɛttɛ/).
What Odette means
Where Odette comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Odette grows from a Germanic root, aud, meaning wealth. The same element sits inside the old name Otto, its blunt masculine cousin. French speakers reshaped the sound into Odette, and the name settled into French life, even though its fortune is Germanic by birth.
The meaning stays close to the surface. Wealthy. There is no later gloss layered over it, no borrowed symbolism. The word said riches, and the name still does.
Two women fixed Odette in memory. In Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, Odette is the swan queen under a curse. In the Second World War, Odette Sansom worked as a British agent in France, was captured, and survived to receive the George Cross. One is invented, one lived.
In a Polish class register the name is rare, foreign enough to make a teacher pause on the roll. Yet the root behind it is old and plain: aud, wealth.
How many people are named Odette
1 in 1610274 women in Poland is named Odette. 14 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #12886 among female names.
Odette's popularity over time
2 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1768 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2024.
Odette as a middle name
Odette is a first name for 14 women in Poland and a middle name for another 17, a 45/55 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1796th, between Oanh (17) and Quỳnh (17).
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#1794 Notburga17
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#1795 Oanh17
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#1796 Odette17
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#1797 Quỳnh17
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#1798 Renalda17