Odette is the French diminutive of Oda — from the Old Germanic aud ("wealth, prosperity, fortune"). A top-1000 US baby name since 2013. Cursed by the sorcerer von Rothbart to live as a white swan by day and a woman only at night, Odette can be saved only by true love; the dual role of Odette/Odile (the Black Swan, her dark mirror) is among the most-demanding female roles in classical ballet — most prima ballerinas in history have performed it including Anna Pavlova, Maya Plisetskaya, Margot Fonteyn, Natalia Makarova, and Misty Copeland. The 32 fouettés en tournant sequence in the Black Swan coda is considered the most-famous technical feat in classical ballet. Odette Annable (born 1985) — House M.D. (2007-2008); Pretty Little Liars (2017-2019). Odette Holiday — Modern Family recurring. Odette Yustman is Odette Annable.
Odette does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Odette reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.