Clergymen generally used one Latin and one family name that were carried on through the centuries. In Friesland during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it also became popular amongst the more intellectual professions such as Lawyers Surgeons and Professors to latinize their Friesian names. So named was one of the first proven early members of the present Odolphie family, one Ozias of Odolphus Petri was a teacher at the Latin school in Franeker and was born Oeds Pytters 28-10-1676 and Latinized his name in May 1734 aged 58.
In 1811 when Napoleon decreed that everyone must have one family name officially registered there was 1 Oeds Odolphy with four children: 1 Wijbrand Odolphie with six children: 1 Pibo Odolphie with four children: In a census in 1947 there were eight Odolphy`s and four Odolphij`s registered in Holland.