Odonnell
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Odonnell is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script.
- IEIreland1 in 2.7K◐
- AUAustralia1 in 3.5K
- USUnited States1 in 5.6K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈90K ◐
- Sources
- 195 ●
- 1 in 2.7K ◐
across 18 countries
556K records
Official registry-verified
Ireland
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled O'Donnell in AU Australia, IE Ireland, ZA South Africa and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by estimated bearers.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #520 | ≈59K | 477K rec. | 1 in 5.6K | 43K | Odonnell | 195 |
| GB United Kingdom | #531 | ≈12K | 35K rec. | 1 in 5.7K | — | Odonnell | 82 |
| AU Australia | #309 | ≈7.2K | 19K rec. | 1 in 3.5K | — | O'Donnell | 61 |
| CA Canada | #627 | ≈5.6K | 10K rec. | 1 in 6.8K | — | Odonnell | 61 |
| IE Ireland | #314 | ≈1.9K | 3.4K rec. | 1 in 2.7K | — | O'Donnell | 57 |
| NZ New Zealand | #605 | ≈815 | 915 rec. | 1 in 6K | — | Odonnell | 33 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈773 | 955 rec. | 1 in 104K | — | Odonnell | 28 |
| JM Jamaica | #313 | ≈472 | 788 rec. | 1 in 6K | — | Odonnell | 4 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈423 | 589 rec. | 1 in 15K | — | Odonnell | 9 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈358 | 227 rec. | 1 in 25K | — | Odonnell | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈334 | 583 rec. | 1 in 52K | — | Odonnell | 14 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈290 | 557 rec. | 1 in 376K | — | Odonnell | 8 |
Roughly 59K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 5.6K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English489K94%
- Spanish8.8K2%
- Italian2.8K1%
- Arabic2.3K1%
- French2.1K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 488,611 | 94% |
| Spanish | 8,810 | 2% |
| Italian | 2,757 | 1% |
| Arabic | 2,276 | 1% |
| French | 2,119 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Evidence●
Attested in 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 43K | #795 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 43K | #784 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 43K | #728 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 42 | #118,404 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 16 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #373,929 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #260,470 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #28,860 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 1 | #25,632 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-03 data build · 12 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Odonnell?
- We estimate roughly 90 thousand people bear Odonnell (counting its spellings and scripts) across 18 countries in our records.
- In which country does Odonnell have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 59 thousand people bear Odonnell in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled odonnell.
- Where is Odonnell most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Odonnell is densest in Ireland — about 1 in 2.7 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Odonnell compared with other names?
- In the United States, Odonnell is the 520th most common surname of 4,456,294 surnames recorded there.
Query this name via API
curl https://nelma-api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/odonnellThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Odonnell” — the 520th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.