Odo
Odo is an old German male given name .
Origin and meaning of the name
The word comes from the Old High German ot (= possession, wealth), Germanic audha ; Odo is the short form of names beginning with Ot , such as Otbert , Otfried , Otmar ; means: rich inheritance.
name day
- June 2 - St Odo of Canterbury
- July 7th - St. Odo of Urgell
- November 18th - St. Odo of Cluny, second abbot of Cluny
Well-known namesake
- Odo Colonna (1368–1431), later Pope Martin V.
- Odo Marquard (1928–2015), German philosopher
- Eudo of Aquitaine (also Odo; † 735), as dux (duke) or princeps (prince) of Aquitaine
- Odo von Bayeux (around 1030-1097), bishop and half-brother of William the Conqueror
- Odo von Cambrai (1060–1113), ecclesiastical scholar, abbot and finally bishop of Cambrai; Blessed of the Catholic Church
- Odo of Canterbury , (Odo the Good) (c. 880–959), Archbishop of Canterbury, saint
- Odo von Champlitte (French: Eudes de Champlitte; * 1123, † after 1187), feudal lord
- Odo von Châtillon (also Odo von Lagery) (around 1035-1099), later Pope Urban II.
- Odo von Cluny (around 878–942), Benedictine abbot in Cluny , saint
- Odo von Metz , an architect of Charlemagne
- Odo von Meung (11th century), author of Macer floridus
- Odo von Montbéliard (also: Hugo, Heude, Eudes or Otto; * around 1205, † around 1247), Bailli and constable of Jerusalem and, by marriage, Prince of Galilee
- Odo von Orléans (* before 798, † 834) is, it is widely assumed, identical to the older Count Udo in Lahngau
- Odo of Paris (around 865–898), King of West Franconia (888–898)
- Odo von Urgell († 1122), Spanish bishop and saint
- Odo von Sully , 1196–1208 Bishop of Paris
- Odo Deodatus I. Tauern (1885–1926), a well-known ethnologist and progenitor of the Tauern family, a branch of the Henckel von Donnersmarcks
- Odo J. Struger (1931–1998), Austrian-American engineer and inventor
- Odo I. (Blois) (* around 950; † 995/996), Count of Blois, Tours, Chartres, Châteaudun, Beauvais and Dreux, Lord of Chinon and Saumur
- Odo II (Blois) († 1037), Count of Blois, Châteaudun, Chartres, Reims, Tours and Beauvais, also Count of Sancerre and Count of Meaux and Troyes (Champagne)
- Odo III. (Champagne) (French: Eudes; † 1093), since 1089 Count of Troyes (Champagne), Vitry and Bar-sur-Aube from the House of Blois
- Odo (OSB), see Carl Alexander Herzog von Württemberg
- Odo Neustädter-Stürmer (1885–1938), Austrian politician
- Odo Rumpf (* 1961), German artist
- Odo Tattenpach (1905–1953), German painter and sculptor
- Odo from the TV series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , see: Characters in the Star Trek Universe
- Odo Stolzfuß, a hobbit from the novel The Lord of the Rings