Kody
#6,116 for girls in 2025, 19 births · #1,069 for boys in 2025, 202 births
Given to boys 96.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1993 · 1,169 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 23,762since 1956
Kody over time
Rank among boys' names. Kody 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,116 | 19 | #1,069 | 202 |
| 2024 | #5,962 | 20 | #1,096 | 197 |
| 2023 | #6,169 | 19 | #992 | 222 |
| 2022 | #7,281 | 15 | #1,103 | 194 |
| 2021 | #4,964 | 26 | #977 | 227 |
| 2020 | #6,923 | 16 | #946 | 232 |
| 2019 | #7,716 | 14 | #831 | 271 |
| 2018 | #8,146 | 13 | #890 | 243 |
| 2017 | #6,808 | 17 | #826 | 270 |
| 2016 | #7,602 | 15 | #827 | 275 |
| 2015 | #8,008 | 14 | #769 | 310 |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 | #725 | 331 |
| 2013 | #8,135 | 14 | #720 | 324 |
| 2012 | #9,711 | 11 | #693 | 341 |
| 2011 | #7,783 | 15 | #629 | 372 |
| 2010 | #7,880 | 15 | #630 | 385 |
| 2009 | #9,975 | 11 | #595 | 434 |
| 2008 | #6,799 | 19 | #579 | 443 |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 | #516 | 507 |
| 2006 | #7,142 | 17 | #492 | 525 |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 | #476 | 527 |
| 2004 | #10,690 | 9 | #407 | 638 |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 | #412 | 625 |
| 2002 | #6,129 | 18 | #391 | 665 |
| 2001 | #6,322 | 17 | #368 | 721 |
| 2000 | #4,649 | 25 | #349 | 783 |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 | #357 | 732 |
| 1998 | #5,363 | 19 | #333 | 811 |
| 1997 | #6,483 | 14 | #283 | 987 |
| 1996 | #3,632 | 30 | #270 | 1,042 |
| 1995 | #3,285 | 34 | #258 | 1,092 |
| 1994 | #4,376 | 23 | #247 | 1,163 |
| 1993 | #3,506 | 31 | #245 | 1,169 |
| 1992 | #3,968 | 26 | #253 | 1,145 |
| 1991 | #3,207 | 34 | #271 | 982 |
| 1990 | #3,714 | 28 | #305 | 833 |
| 1989 | #4,121 | 23 | #355 | 638 |
| 1988 | #3,690 | 25 | #362 | 560 |
| 1987 | #3,424 | 26 | #417 | 437 |
| 1986 | #3,757 | 22 | #485 | 326 |
| 1985 | #4,282 | 18 | #499 | 303 |
| 1984 | #4,318 | 17 | #568 | 223 |
| 1983 | #4,686 | 15 | #675 | 160 |
| 1982 | #4,527 | 16 | #723 | 143 |
| 1981 | — | #865 | 105 | |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 | #957 | 88 |
| 1979 | #6,696 | 9 | #991 | 80 |
| 1978 | #4,679 | 14 | #901 | 91 |
| 1977 | #5,532 | 11 | #1,054 | 67 |
| 1976 | — | #1,123 | 57 | |
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 | #1,378 | 40 |
| 1974 | #6,900 | 7 | #1,335 | 41 |
| 1973 | — | #1,400 | 36 | |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | #1,966 | 21 |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | #1,987 | 21 |
| 1970 | — | #1,939 | 21 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,549 | 12 | |
| 1968 | — | #3,107 | 8 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,760 | 9 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,784 | 9 | |
| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 | #3,244 | 7 |
| 1964 | — | #2,205 | 14 | |
| 1963 | — | #4,048 | 5 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,305 | 7 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,097 | 8 | |
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| 1956 | — | #3,942 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kody! It came in at #3,942, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1956–1960, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Kody is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Hawaii#229 · 1 in 706
- Nevada#450 · 1 in 2,186
- Connecticut#462 · 1 in 2,809
- Arkansas#482 · 1 in 2,286
- Oregon#544 · 1 in 2,896
Best ever in a state: #84 in Idaho, 1993.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | #229 | 6 | 1 in 706 |
| Nevada | #450 | 6 | 1 in 2,186 |
| Connecticut | #462 | 5 | 1 in 2,809 |
| Arkansas | #482 | 6 | 1 in 2,286 |
| Oregon | #544 | 6 | 1 in 2,896 |
| Louisiana | #569 | 8 | 1 in 2,982 |
| Maryland | #619 | 7 | 1 in 3,787 |
| Michigan | #624 | 12 | 1 in 3,869 |
| Kentucky | #633 | 5 | 1 in 4,327 |
| Alabama | #641 | 6 | 1 in 3,812 |
| Washington | #657 | 9 | 1 in 3,951 |
| Wisconsin | #673 | 6 | 1 in 4,332 |
| New Jersey | #714 | 8 | 1 in 5,107 |
| Florida | #736 | 18 | 1 in 5,371 |
| Missouri | #750 | 6 | 1 in 5,101 |
| California | #770 | 33 | 1 in 6,537 |
| Illinois | #791 | 11 | 1 in 5,630 |
| Ohio | #840 | 9 | 1 in 6,484 |
| Georgia | #925 | 8 | 1 in 6,711 |
| New York | #931 | 13 | 1 in 7,504 |
| Pennsylvania | #945 | 7 | 1 in 8,315 |
| North Carolina | #1,028 | 6 | 1 in 8,554 |
| Texas | #1,043 | 18 | 1 in 9,787 |
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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 Kody
- 27 spots since 2024 (#1,096 → #1,069)
- 123 spots since 2020 (#946 → #1,069)
- 300 spots since 2015 (#769 → #1,069)
- Biggest jump: 153 spots in 1978 (#1,054 → #901)
- Biggest drop: 126 spots in 2022 (#977 → #1,103)
- Debuted 1956
- Peaked 1993 at #245 (1,169 births)
- Births halved by 2005, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 45 yrs · run 1978–2021
- Highest: 1 in 1,661 boys born in 1994 were named Kody (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,456 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #245 in 1993, was only 1 in 1,678 (0.06%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 41.9% of all boys named Kody (9,956) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #3,942 (1956) | #3,942 |
| 1960s | 79 | #2,205 (1964) | #3,011 |
| 1970s | 475 | #901 (1978) | #1,407 |
| 1980s | 2,983 | #355 (1989) | #591 |
| 1990s | 9,956 | #245 (1993) | #282 |
| 2000s | 5,868 | #349 (2000) | #459 |
| 2010s | 3,122 | #629 (2011) | #754 |
| 2020s | 1,274 | #946 (2020) | #1,031 |
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.
Kody in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 101,557 of them was named Kody, which outranked 63.1% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,531Zeva18
- #6,531Ziggy18
- #6,531Zuzu18
- #6,808Kody17
- #6,808Aariel17
- #6,808Abbigale17
- #6,808Addi17
- #7,092Aanika16
- #7,092Abra16
- #7,092Abrie16
Tied with 283 names at #6,808; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 6,855 of them was named Kody, which outranked 94.2% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).