Odette is the French diminutive of Oda — from the Old Germanic aud ("wealth, prosperity, fortune"). A top-1000 US baby name since 2013. Princess Odette — heroine of Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake (1877), premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre — the most-performed ballet in the classical repertoire worldwide. 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 Sansom (1912-1995) — French-British World War II spy with the Special Operations Executive; first woman awarded the George Cross (1946); survived Ravensbrück concentration camp; biopic Odette (1950) with Anna Neagle. Odette Annable (born 1985) — House M.D. (2007-2008); Pretty Little Liars (2017-2019). Odette Holiday — Modern Family* recurring. Odette Yustman is Odette Annable.
Featured throughout classical ballet and 20th-century history.
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.