Girl

Jodi

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#4,029
36 girls
2015
#3,626
rank
1950
#1,080
rank

Jodi: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 36 in 2025. Its best rank was #91 in 1974.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #91 in 1974; #4,029 in 2025. About 84% of babies named Jodi in 2025 were girls.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#4,029 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1974, at #91.

Babies in 2025
43
Since 1880
80,657
Years on record
86

Babies named Jodi, every year since 1880

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Girls Boys

Jodi: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 36 girls in 2025. Peak: #91 in 1974 · most girls in one year: 4,186 (1970).

About the name Jodi

In 2025, 36 US girls were named Jodi, making it the 4,029th most common girls’ name of the year, down 775 places from #3,254 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 49 girls named Jodi in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #91, reached in 1974. The most girls given the name in a single year was 4,186, in 1970. For comparison, it was #3,626 in 2015 and #1,080 in 1950.

In 2025, 7 US boys were named Jodi, making it the 10,154th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,437 places from #11,591 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 6 boys named Jodi in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,212, reached in 1973. That year also had the most boys given the name: 47. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.

Social Security card records list Jodi in 86 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1940 with 7 babies. In all, 80,657 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 30,682 babies named Jodi.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 429 US girls were named Jodi; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 51. In 2025 that was about 1 in 44,646 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.

Related spellings in the SSA files include Jo (180,911 babies since 1880), Jody (87,407 babies since 1880), Jodie (31,099 babies since 1880) and Judi (10,351 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Joddie and Joudia 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

Rare spellings summarised here: Joddie (46), Joudia (30).

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 Jodi in the open dataset we use.

Jodi is listed as a nickname for Joanna.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Rank by year

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

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
202536#4,0297#10,154
202449#3,2546#11,591
202335#4,149——
202246#3,4399#8,622
202151#3,183——
202044#3,4707#10,036
201943#3,5838#9,267
201845#3,4616#11,426
201742#3,6616#11,416
201638#3,9568#9,247
201543#3,626——
201465#2,7005#12,985
201348#3,34413#6,425
201257#2,98814#6,132
201168#2,6238#9,156
201054#3,0938#9,200
200969#2,6616#11,651
200878#2,45315#5,911
200797#2,09318#5,100
2006100#1,99411#7,161
2005113#1,7495#12,288
2004110#1,7529#7,847
2003134#1,4645#11,753
2002161#1,24014#5,256
2001160#1,244——
2000170#1,178——
1999222#943——
1998232#9108#7,178
1997257#809——
1996282#7507#7,513
1995321#6655#9,518
1994324#6617#7,320
1993385#6026#8,104
1992445#5318#6,372
1991431#5466#7,718
1990518#4746#7,582
1989614#40310#4,988
1988712#3485#7,852
1987791#3097#5,765
1986895#27712#3,745
19851,086#2376#6,138
19841,229#21111#3,807
19831,428#18811#3,742
19821,569#17618#2,641
19811,579#17319#2,536
19801,700#16724#2,186
19791,977#14019#2,508
19782,265#12824#2,041
19772,730#10536#1,556
19762,672#10234#1,584
19753,107#9433#1,575
19743,306#9126#1,809
19733,024#10047#1,212
19723,259#9724#1,848
19713,826#9445#1,245
19704,186#9542#1,285
19693,865#9533#1,401
19683,598#9733#1,350
19673,367#10330#1,396
19663,031#11828#1,467
19653,054#12721#1,752
19642,800#14522#1,713
19631,899#19610#2,759
19621,851#19816#2,076
19611,848#19720#1,846
19601,561#21313#2,374
19591,398#22614#2,248
19581,272#24010#2,723
1957904#3058#3,140
1956570#368——
1955372#471——
1954273#5385#4,089
1953219#5975#4,080
1952125#813——
195184#1,017——
195073#1,080——
194952#1,270——
194840#1,467——
194736#1,590——
194619#2,190——
194511#2,824——
194415#2,335——
19437#3,989——
19427#3,915——
19419#3,119——
19407#3,666——

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).