Oda (first name)
Oda is a female given name.
Origin and meaning
Oda comes from Old High German ("ot": "possession") and means "owner", "heir", "who has inheritance", "who protects inheritance".
variants
The diminutive is Odette , variants are Odina, Odine , Odila, Odilberta, Odilgard, Odalinde.
The most common form of oda currently in use is ute .
The male form "Odo" can be found in the first name Otto .
Name bearers
middle Ages
- Oda von Amay (* around 560; † before 634), Catholic saint
- Oda von Brabant († around 726), hermit and Catholic saint
- Oda (Saxony) (* 805/806; † May 17, 913?), Since about 825/835 wife of the Saxon Count Liudolf , the progenitor of the Liudolfinger (Ottonen)
- Oda (Eastern Franconia) (also Ota, Uta) (* around 873; † after November 30, 903), wife of the Duke of Carinthia, King of East Franconia and Roman-German Emperor Arnulf of Carinthia
- Oda (Lorraine) (* 875/880; July 2nd after 952), daughter of the Saxon Duke Otto the Illustrious , wife of the Lotharingian King Zwentibold , wife of the Lotharingian Count Gerhard
- Oda (Billunger) (also Oda von Sachsen, Ode) († March 15, probably after 973), wife of the Saxon Margrave Hermann Billung
- Oda von Haldensleben (* before 962, † 1023), wife of the first Polish Piast Duke Mieszko I.
- Oda von Meissen († October 31 or November 13 after 1018) wife of the Piast Duke Bolesław I.
- Oda von Werl (* around 1050 - 13 January 1110), wife of Lothar Udo II , Count of Stade and Margrave of the Nordmark
- Oda von Stade (* before 1055; later † 1076), daughter Idas von Elsdorf, wife Swjatoslaw II. , Mother Wartislaw I. (Annales Stadenses, Babenberger )
- Oda von Meinersen (* before 1228, † probably around 1260), abbess of the combined monasteries of Gernrode and Frose
Modern times
- Oda Buchenau (1900–1988), German writer and press printer
- Oda Hardt-Rösler (1880–1965), German painter
- Oda-Gebbine Holze-Stäblein (* 1942), German theologian
- Oda Jaune (* 1979), Bulgarian painter (pseudonym for Michaela Immendorff, née Danowska )
- Oda Krohg , b. Lasson (1860–1935), Norwegian landscape and portrait painter
- Oda Mielenhausen (1938-2010), German table tennis player
- Oda Schaefer , b. Kraus (1900–1988), German writer and journalist (pseudonym for Oda Lange )
- Oda Scheibelhuber (* 1951), German politician (CDU)
- Oda Schottmüller (1905–1943), German dancer and resistance fighter
- Odine Johne (* 1987), German actress
- Oda Tiemann (* 1993), German singer and part of the singing duo Tuó