German given name and surname, from Old High German Odo, Udo, from Proto-Germanic *aud- "wealth, prosperity," corresponding to Old English ead (as in Edward, Edith, etc.). Related: Ottonian, in reference to the East Frankish dynasty of the Holy Roman Empire founded 962 by Otto I.
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