Entry № 7721 · French origin

Odile Odile — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Wealthy / Black Swan (Saint Odile + Swan Lake)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "wealthy / black swan (saint odile + swan lake)".

Odile is from the French form of the Germanic Otilia/Odilia — from uod (wealth, fortune). Saint Odile of Alsace (c. 662-c. Odile in Alsace, France — one of the major pilgrimage sites in northeastern France for 1,300+ years; her feast day December 13 remains a major Alsatian holiday; one of the most-celebrated medieval Frankish female saints. Princess Odile — multiple medieval French royal namings.

Wealthy / Black Swan.

The name in its native script.

Odile
Transliteration
Odile
Pronunciation
/ oʊˈdiːl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Odile stands.

Odile 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.

Odiles before her.

Real people
Saint Odile of Alsace
Patron saint of Alsace.
c. 662 – c. 720
In fiction
Odile (Black Swan)
Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake (1876).
1876

Names connected to Odile.

The number behind Odile.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Odile reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.