Bodhi
#4,546 for girls in 2025, 30 births · #265 for boys in 2025, 1,301 births
Given to boys 96.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 1,301 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 14,292since 1976
Bodhi over time
Rank among boys' names. Bodhi has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,546 | 30 | #265 | 1,301 |
| 2024 | #3,963 | 37 | #301 | 1,117 |
| 2023 | #3,047 | 54 | #294 | 1,126 |
| 2022 | #3,220 | 50 | #300 | 1,125 |
| 2021 | #3,002 | 55 | #284 | 1,220 |
| 2020 | #3,179 | 49 | #295 | 1,153 |
| 2019 | #2,561 | 68 | #300 | 1,133 |
| 2018 | #2,810 | 60 | #312 | 1,090 |
| 2017 | #3,552 | 43 | #300 | 1,173 |
| 2016 | #3,996 | 37 | #361 | 921 |
| 2015 | #7,266 | 16 | #498 | 585 |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | #612 | 436 |
| 2013 | #9,036 | 12 | #806 | 271 |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 | #880 | 238 |
| 2011 | #9,150 | 12 | #919 | 219 |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #904 | 225 |
| 2009 | #15,242 | 6 | #1,241 | 144 |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | #1,263 | 138 |
| 2007 | — | #1,350 | 124 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,460 | 105 | |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | #1,838 | 70 |
| 2004 | — | #2,131 | 55 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,269 | 47 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,092 | 51 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,618 | 36 | |
| 2000 | — | #4,204 | 18 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,939 | 28 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,092 | 25 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,981 | 25 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,678 | 18 | |
| 1995 | — | #4,508 | 13 | |
| 1994 | — | #4,094 | 15 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,501 | 18 | |
| 1992 | — | #4,114 | 14 | |
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| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
| 1976 | — | #5,587 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Bodhi! It came in at #5,587, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1976–1991, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Bodhi is popular in 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Alaska#103 · 1 in 319
- Hawaii#107 · 1 in 346
- Montana#113 · 1 in 330
- Colorado#137 · 1 in 534
- Washington#147 · 1 in 562
Best ever in a state: #54 in Montana, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | #103 | 8 | 1 in 319 |
| Hawaii | #107 | 10 | 1 in 346 |
| Montana | #113 | 10 | 1 in 330 |
| Colorado | #137 | 47 | 1 in 534 |
| Washington | #147 | 59 | 1 in 562 |
| New Hampshire | #159 | 8 | 1 in 542 |
| Oregon | #171 | 25 | 1 in 619 |
| Rhode Island | #176 | 6 | 1 in 562 |
| South Dakota | #191 | 6 | 1 in 556 |
| Delaware | #200 | 5 | 1 in 619 |
| Utah | #220 | 23 | 1 in 838 |
| California | #227 | 183 | 1 in 1,036 |
| Arizona | #235 | 35 | 1 in 913 |
| Massachusetts | #239 | 25 | 1 in 1,074 |
| Kentucky | #240 | 21 | 1 in 935 |
| Kansas | #251 | 14 | 1 in 980 |
| Nevada | #252 | 13 | 1 in 913 |
| Ohio | #253 | 49 | 1 in 1,112 |
| Idaho | #256 | 9 | 1 in 860 |
| Iowa | #261 | 14 | 1 in 969 |
| Minnesota | #266 | 22 | 1 in 1,136 |
| West Virginia | #275 | 7 | 1 in 995 |
| New Jersey | #281 | 30 | 1 in 1,311 |
| Virginia | #289 | 30 | 1 in 1,289 |
| Illinois | #291 | 42 | 1 in 1,301 |
| Nebraska | #294 | 8 | 1 in 1,097 |
| Pennsylvania | #307 | 37 | 1 in 1,459 |
| Missouri | #308 | 21 | 1 in 1,357 |
| Florida | #314 | 58 | 1 in 1,555 |
| Indiana | #314 | 23 | 1 in 1,412 |
| Michigan | #324 | 28 | 1 in 1,525 |
| Connecticut | #336 | 8 | 1 in 1,638 |
| New York | #351 | 49 | 1 in 1,789 |
| Wisconsin | #351 | 15 | 1 in 1,596 |
| Oklahoma | #370 | 12 | 1 in 1,479 |
| North Carolina | #389 | 24 | 1 in 2,039 |
| South Carolina | #406 | 11 | 1 in 1,819 |
| Maryland | #419 | 12 | 1 in 2,089 |
| Alabama | #426 | 11 | 1 in 1,979 |
| Tennessee | #429 | 16 | 1 in 2,130 |
| Texas | #460 | 68 | 1 in 2,489 |
| Louisiana | #474 | 10 | 1 in 2,157 |
| Georgia | #506 | 19 | 1 in 2,646 |
| Mississippi | #524 | 5 | 1 in 2,423 |
| Arkansas | #543 | 5 | 1 in 2,551 |
| District of Columbia | — | — | — |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Bodhi
- 36 spots since 2024 (#301 → #265)
- 30 spots since 2020 (#295 → #265)
- 233 spots since 2015 (#498 → #265)
- Biggest jump: 337 spots in 2010 (#1,241 → #904)
- Biggest drop: 16 spots in 2022 (#284 → #300)
- Debuted 1976
- Peaked 2025 at #265 (1,301 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 2010–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,313 boys born in 2025 were named Bodhi (0.08%)
- 49.3% of all boys named Bodhi (7,042) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 15 | #5,587 (1976) | #5,829 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 156 | #2,939 (1999) | #3,613 |
| 2000s | 788 | #1,241 (2009) | #2,047 |
| 2010s | 6,291 | #300 (2017) | #589 |
| 2020s | 7,042 | #265 (2025) | #290 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Bodhi in 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 32,991 of them was named Bodhi, which outranked 81.9% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,141Rynlee50
- #3,141Tesla50
- #3,141Zalayah50
- #3,179Bodhi49
- #3,179Adamaris49
- #3,179Aiden49
- #3,179Aly49
- #3,221Abagail48
- #3,221Adelin48
- #3,221Alaura48
Tied with 41 names at #3,179; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 1,497 of them was named Bodhi, which outranked 97.9% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.