First name origins & meanings:
- English: Otter
- Irish: Used as a surname
- Scandinavian: Little wealthy one
First name variations: Ode, Odie, Odyll, Odall, Odele Last name origins & meanings:
- 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.
- English: (O’Dell)
of the same origin as 1, but altered by folk etymology as if of Irish
origin.
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