About the name Odette
Odette belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Odette first appears in Social Security records in 1894. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #843 in 1905, and in 2024 193 babies received the name — 3,933 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.