"Traditional name"
The name Odyssey is commonly a unisex name.
Odyssey is the English form of the title of the Homeric epic, Greek Odysseia, which is named for its hero Odysseus. Its use as a given name in English is modern; the earliest United States birth record held here is from 1982. The etymology of Odysseus is disputed, and the poem itself offers a folk explanation linking the name to the Greek verb odyssasthai, to be angry with, in the account of how the hero was named.
The pronunciation of Odyssey is AH-duh-see.
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