Highest ever

Bodhi

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#265
1,301 boys
2015
#498
rank
1950
—
not ranked

Bodhi: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,301 in 2025. Its best rank was #265 in 2025.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 98% of babies named Bodhi in 2025 were boys.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#265 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.

Babies in 2025
1,331
Since 1880
14,854
Years on record
37

Babies named Bodhi, every year since 1880

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Boys

Bodhi: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,301 boys in 2025. Peak: #265 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 1,301 (2025).

About the name Bodhi

In 2025, 1,301 US boys were named Bodhi, making it the 265th most common boys’ name of the year, up 36 places from #301 in 2024. That is 184 more than the 1,117 boys named Bodhi in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #265, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,301. For comparison, it was #498 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.

Social Security card records list Bodhi in 37 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 5 babies. In all, 14,854 US babies have been given the name, 3.8% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 7,317 babies named Bodhi.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 11,359 US boys were named Bodhi; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,301. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,313 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.

Among the states, Bodhi ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #91 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Rarer spellings such as Bodhie are summarised on this page.

Meaning

Meaning not yet researched.

We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.

Related spellings

No related spellings pass our data threshold.

Rare spellings summarised here: Bodhie (17).

Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Bodhi in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Bodhi by state, 2025

US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 7 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
Hawaii10#91#136
Washington66#120#382
Idaho20#127—
Oregon30#135#273
Alaska6#143—
New Hampshire10#145—
South Dakota9#150—
Maine8#154#243
Missouri44#158#492
Iowa25#169#510
Connecticut20#173#457
Colorado39#178#232
Utah27#198#479
West Virginia9#203—
Ohio62#208#513
Massachusetts29#209#409
Indiana38#219#724
Kansas18#221#394
California163#231#327
Wisconsin26#231#510
Montana5#233#244
Kentucky23#236—
Pennsylvania51#239#420
Arkansas14#248—
Oklahoma19#254—
Minnesota23#265#307
Michigan38#265#993
Florida73#280#520
Virginia30#281#448
North Carolina42#295#528
Arizona25#309#565
Maryland17#319#645
Tennessee27#325#928
Louisiana15#339#823
Nebraska7#342—
New Jersey22#367#628
Alabama14#376#630
Nevada7#397—
Illinois27#401#672
Mississippi7#419—
Texas76#440#721
Georgia25#442#844
South Carolina9#506#667
New York29#546#671

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
202530#4,5711,301#265
202437#3,9761,117#301
202354#3,0501,126#294
202250#3,2241,125#300
202155#3,0101,220#284
202049#3,1891,153#295
201968#2,5661,133#300
201860#2,8151,090#312
201743#3,5661,173#300
201637#4,005921#361
201516#7,336585#498
20146#14,885436#612
201312#9,122271#807
20129#11,421238#880
201112#9,253219#920
20105#17,456225#907
20096#15,554144#1,241
20087#14,080138#1,265
2007——124#1,351
2006——105#1,460
20056#14,78370#1,841
2004——55#2,134
2003——47#2,276
2002——51#2,093
2001——36#2,622
2000——18#4,225
1999——28#2,949
1998——25#3,101
1997——25#2,991
1996——18#3,692
1995——13#4,541
1994——15#4,115
1993——18#3,511
1992——14#4,128
1979——5#6,151
1977——5#5,939
1976——5#5,688

About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).