Jodie

Where Jodie comes from

The dictionaries list Jodie as a given name — alternative form of Jody in its female senses — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1882
    First appearance
    #678 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1946
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1962
    Jodie Foster born
    American actress and filmmaker
  4. 1974
    Peak, #249
    1,028 babies named Jodie — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1982
    Jodie Whittaker born
    English actress
  6. 1984
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #441.
In the dictionary
  • Alternative form of Jody in its female senses.
Namesakes
  • Jodie Foster · American actress and filmmaker, born 1962
  • Jodie Whittaker · English actress, born 1982
  • Jodie Comer · British actress, born 1993
  • Jodie Sweetin · American actress and television personality, born 1982
  • Jodie Henry · Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, world champion, former world record-holder, born 1983

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.