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First name origins & meanings:

  1. English: Otter
  2. Irish: Used as a surname
  3. Scandinavian: Little wealthy one

First name variations: Ode, Odie, Odyll, Odall, Odele

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. English: habitational name from a place in Bedfordshire, also called Woodhill, from Old English wād ‘woad’ (a plant collected for the blue dye that could be obtained from it) + hyll ‘hill’. Compare Waddell.
  2. English: (O’Dell) of the same origin as 1, but altered by folk etymology as if of Irish origin.