Odessa

Ukrainian place-name

Odessa Origin and Meaning

The name Odessa is a girl's name of Russian origin.

Odessa, a Ukrainian port city, was given its name by Catherine the Great, who was inspired by Homer's Odyssey. It would make an original and intriguing choice.

Though rare today, Odessa had more U.S. popularity in the past than you might imagine. It actually ranked in the Top 1000 every year from 1880, the year Social Security records began to be kept, through 1956. Then anti-Russian sentiment during the Cold War took it off the table. Michael Chiklis, onetime Commish, has a daughter named Odessa.

Odessa Rank in US Top 1000

# 959 in the US

Odessa Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 370 on Nameberry

Odessa Popularity

• 370 Nameberry 2024
• 853 Unique 2023

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Famous People Named Odessa

• Odessa Cleveland American actress
• Odessa Warren Grey American milliner, entrepreneur, and performer
• Odessa Lee Grady Clay mother of American boxer Muhammad Ali
• Odessa Young Australian actress
• Odessa Zion Segall Adlon also known as Odessa A'zion, actress and daughter of Pamela Adlon
• Odessa Chiklis daughter of actor Michael Chiklis
• Odessa Piper chef
• Jennifer Odessa Nettles lead singer of American country band Sugarland

Odessa in Pop Culture

• Odessa Green Light, main character in "Odessa Again" by Dana Reinhardt
• Odessa Cubbage minor character in video game "Half,Life 2"
• Odessa Dobson a character in TV movie The Spoils of Babylon
• Odessa character in the fantasy series Etheria
• Odessa recurring character on Into the Badlands
• Odessa song by Caribou