Odessa is from the Greek odyssos (a long, wandering journey) — feminine form of Odysseus. Odessa, Ukraine — major Black Sea port city; founded 1794 by Catherine the Great; population 1+ million; UNESCO World Heritage Site for its historic center; the city's iconic Potemkin Stairs were featured in Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925) — one of the most-influential films in cinema history; Odessa has been a major cultural center for Russian-Ukrainian literature, music, and Jewish heritage; severely damaged during the Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022). Odessa O'Donnell — modern American figure. Odessa Munroe — Canadian actress.
and American sports culture.
Odessa 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.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Odessa reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.