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.
Odette reduces to nine — the number of Swan Lake.