Odie sits at #488 with 249 entries, leaning male. The cultural anchor is unambiguous — Odie, the long-eared, slobbery, perpetually-second-fiddle dog from Jim Davis's Garfield comic strip (1978 onward) and the cartoon adaptations. The pet version of the name is almost entirely the Garfield lineage.
The Garfield cohort
Odie belongs to a small cohort of pet names that come almost entirely from a single screen anchor. Without Garfield, the name probably wouldn't exist as a pet pick. Owners reaching for Odie today often grew up reading the Sunday strips or watching the cartoons, and the cohort skews older millennial and Gen X.
Breed lean
The naming pattern shows strong breed-shape matching — Odie in the strip is a long-eared, droopy, friendly dog, and the pet version over-indexes on Beagles, Basset Hounds, Cocker Spaniels, and droopy-eared rescue mixes. Owners are picking the name for the visual match, not just for the cartoon reference.
The diminutive register counter-reading
A smaller subset of owners come to Odie as a nickname for Odin or Otis. The Odin pet name page shows the Norse-mythology pet-naming cohort at higher rank, with Odie occasionally functioning as the affectionate everyday version. The two-syllable shape (OH-dee) is friendly and easy to call across a yard, with the open front vowel carrying well.
Owner-cohort skew
The Odie cohort is unusually homogeneous — owners are almost universally older millennial through Gen X, with the naming pattern signaling someone who absorbed the Garfield comic strip in childhood and is now picking the goofy sidekick rather than the title cat. The trending pet names list and Garfield pet name page show other cartoon-anchored picks holding steady alongside.