Odys
A Greek name with a hard edge: it means "hated, wrathful one". Fewer than 40 men in Poland carry it, so most Poles will never meet one, and newborns almost never get it now.
Odys Pronunciation
Odys is pronounced O-dihs (/ˈɔdɨs/).
What Odys means
Where Odys comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Odys comes from Greek. The name stands close to Odyseusz, the Polish form of Odysseus, and shares its root. That root is the verb odyssomai, meaning to be angry or to hate, which gives the short meaning: hated, wrathful one.
Homer built this into the poem. In Book 19 of the Odyssey, the grandfather Autolykos names the boy out of his own anger, so the hero's name reads as the one who is hated and who hates back. A child called Odys keeps a fragment of that old grammar of wrath.
On a Polish class register the name would sit alone. There is no imieniny for Odys in the church calendar, and it holds no diminutive of its own. What it holds is the Greek verb and its blunt sense: gniewny, znienawidzony.
How many people are named Odys
1 in 561742 men in Poland is named Odys. 38 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6378 among male names.
Odys's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Odys as a middle name
Odys is a first name for 38 men in Poland and a middle name for another 16, a 70/30 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2337th, between Nurul (16) and Parker (16).
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#2335 Natalian16
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#2336 Nurul16
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#2337 Odys16
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#2338 Parker16
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#2339 Rafi16