Odin is a boy's name of Scandinavian origin meaning “rage.” In 2024 it was given to 641 boys in the United States.
Odin at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Scandinavian
Meaning
“rage”
Pronunciation
/ˈəʊ.dɪn/
About the name Odin
Odin belongs to the Scandinavian tradition. Its meaning — “rage” — is the sense carried by its Scandinavian roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Odin first appears in Social Security records in 1884. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #327 in 2021, and in 2024 641 babies received the name — 12,669 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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