Comments for the name Odessa

Little Odessa is a film from 1994 starring Tim Roth and Edward Furlong.

Odessa was the name of a great wolf in Patrick Carman's "The Land of Elyon" series.

Odessa Chen is the female singer in the little-known band Thee More Shallows(she has a beautiful voice).

I love this name. For some reason I just always picture it as the name of a mermaid or nymph. There is something very ethereal about it.

There is something of powerful beauty in this name. I'd love to be the girl to bear it!

In Florida there is a city named Odessa.

It's a city in Ukraine, too. Mark Twain said he was very fond of this city when he visited it in The Innocents Abroad.

In the computer game Half-Life 2, "Colonel" Odessa Cubbage is a cowardly Englishman who aids the player during one section of the game. He is the commander of a rebel hideout called New Little Odessa.

Odessa is a major city in Ukraine.

I first heard this name while watching "The Long Walk Home" with Whoopi Goldberg and Sissy Spacek. Whoppi plays Odessa Cotter, who is a very strong and admirable character, and Sissy plays Miriam, Odessa's boss who gives her rides to work during the Montgomery bus boycott--and thus becomes involved in civil rights. Needless to say, it was a very powerful movie.

For me, "Odessa" reminded me of "Odysseus" (which it's connected to on this site), which further reminded me of the word "odyssey," which means journey. I think that naming a child anything to do with a "journey" is wonderful, since what else can it allude to but the journey that is Life? I think *Odessa Miriam* is an absolutely beautiful, powerful name with a great amount of substance (without being pompous).

I went to art school with an Odessa. She was named after the city in the Ukraine. I suppose because of my experiences with her, "Odessa" comes across as being very edgy, artistic, and intelligent, because that's what she was. It's beautiful and rather romantic-sounding, but it's not your typical airy-fairy creative name.

Beautiful. Reminds me of Odette and Odo, both of which I also love but are unusable.

Odysseus is a great namesake, and Dess or Dessie make cute nicknames.

Odessa is the sister of Sofia in the book The Color Purple by Alice Walker.

Odessa, Texas.

Odessa is a grand, beautiful name.
It's where my great-grandfather was born, which makes me love it even more.

I like the name. It sounds regal and grand but it doesn't sound "queenish" like Elizabeth, Victoria, and Katherine. It also isn't very common.

The city of Odessa in the Ukraine is known as "the pearl of the Black Sea", but it's also infamous because of the Odessa pogroms of the 19th-early 20th centuries...
In Ukraine, the name is pronounced not o-DES-sa, but more like ah-DYESH-uh.

ODESSA, a German acronym for "Organization of Former SS Members" is a believed to be a secret Nazi network set up by the SS near the end of World War II. It allowed SS members to avoid capture and prosecution for war crimes by helping them to escape to South America.