Meaning not yet researched.
Jody: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 40 in 2025. Its best rank was #161 in 1971.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #161 in 1971; #3,057 in 2025. About 71% of babies named Jody in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,057 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1971, at #161.
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Jody: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 40 boys in 2025. Peak: #161 in 1971 · most boys in one year: 1,704 (1971).
In 2025, 40 US boys were named Jody, making it the 3,057th most common boys’ name of the year, down 367 places from #2,690 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 49 boys named Jody in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #161, reached in 1971. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,704. For comparison, it was #2,313 in 2015 and #579 in 1950.
In 2025, 16 US girls were named Jody, making it the 6,968th most common girls’ name of the year, down 458 places from #6,510 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 18 girls named Jody in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #153, reached in 1970. The most girls given the name in a single year was 2,226, in 1958. For comparison, it was #6,844 in 2015 and #391 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jody in 108 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1910 with 6 babies. In all, 87,407 US babies have been given the name, 64% of them girls and 36% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 27,701 babies named Jody.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 445 US boys were named Jody; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 52. In 2025 that was about 1 in 42,702 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Judy (384,073 babies since 1880), Jodi (80,657 babies since 1880), Jodie (31,099 babies since 1880) and Jodee (3,150 babies since 1880). The open nickname list we use links it to Jo.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
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.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,968 | 40 | #3,057 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,510 | 49 | #2,690 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,838 | 50 | #2,631 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,440 | 37 | #3,243 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,644 | 47 | #2,711 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,965 | 40 | #2,953 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,879 | 34 | #3,388 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,135 | 52 | #2,490 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,660 | 48 | #2,615 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,277 | 48 | #2,604 |
| 2015 | 18 | #6,844 | 57 | #2,313 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,377 | 68 | #2,071 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,733 | 59 | #2,218 |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,466 | 61 | #2,178 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,958 | 74 | #1,894 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,868 | 75 | #1,905 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,412 | 74 | #1,931 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,807 | 84 | #1,781 |
| 2007 | 40 | #3,948 | 102 | #1,545 |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,204 | 87 | #1,650 |
| 2005 | 38 | #3,839 | 79 | #1,699 |
| 2004 | 49 | #3,151 | 103 | #1,390 |
| 2003 | 44 | #3,319 | 100 | #1,357 |
| 2002 | 57 | #2,686 | 87 | #1,463 |
| 2001 | 53 | #2,789 | 92 | #1,384 |
| 2000 | 67 | #2,320 | 80 | #1,510 |
| 1999 | 80 | #1,968 | 106 | #1,204 |
| 1998 | 96 | #1,672 | 110 | #1,137 |
| 1997 | 83 | #1,809 | 106 | #1,158 |
| 1996 | 104 | #1,535 | 128 | #982 |
| 1995 | 121 | #1,363 | 126 | #991 |
| 1994 | 116 | #1,398 | 150 | #884 |
| 1993 | 146 | #1,188 | 136 | #923 |
| 1992 | 161 | #1,109 | 139 | #897 |
| 1991 | 169 | #1,072 | 202 | #712 |
| 1990 | 188 | #984 | 214 | #695 |
| 1989 | 227 | #834 | 219 | #675 |
| 1988 | 271 | #703 | 252 | #583 |
| 1987 | 283 | #662 | 249 | #577 |
| 1986 | 324 | #596 | 271 | #542 |
| 1985 | 491 | #446 | 295 | #506 |
| 1984 | 552 | #393 | 322 | #469 |
| 1983 | 602 | #372 | 331 | #458 |
| 1982 | 677 | #348 | 366 | #442 |
| 1981 | 744 | #319 | 493 | #356 |
| 1980 | 848 | #293 | 604 | #316 |
| 1979 | 994 | #251 | 731 | #280 |
| 1978 | 1,169 | #215 | 843 | #245 |
| 1977 | 1,500 | #184 | 1,061 | #208 |
| 1976 | 1,565 | #164 | 996 | #212 |
| 1975 | 1,685 | #162 | 939 | #220 |
| 1974 | 1,777 | #154 | 1,124 | #195 |
| 1973 | 1,687 | #163 | 1,242 | #185 |
| 1972 | 1,708 | #172 | 1,339 | #181 |
| 1971 | 1,937 | #162 | 1,704 | #161 |
| 1970 | 2,200 | #153 | 1,500 | #184 |
| 1969 | 1,959 | #165 | 1,589 | #175 |
| 1968 | 1,912 | #169 | 1,298 | #190 |
| 1967 | 1,628 | #194 | 1,057 | #215 |
| 1966 | 1,759 | #186 | 752 | #268 |
| 1965 | 1,571 | #209 | 676 | #290 |
| 1964 | 1,663 | #211 | 741 | #286 |
| 1963 | 1,725 | #206 | 735 | #284 |
| 1962 | 1,780 | #202 | 592 | #322 |
| 1961 | 1,832 | #200 | 837 | #272 |
| 1960 | 1,841 | #196 | 994 | #254 |
| 1959 | 1,860 | #190 | 897 | #266 |
| 1958 | 2,226 | #170 | 661 | #295 |
| 1957 | 2,134 | #176 | 389 | #389 |
| 1956 | 1,749 | #194 | 292 | #440 |
| 1955 | 1,509 | #206 | 297 | #425 |
| 1954 | 1,096 | #246 | 201 | #514 |
| 1953 | 852 | #285 | 190 | #511 |
| 1952 | 861 | #275 | 185 | #513 |
| 1951 | 556 | #336 | 154 | #548 |
| 1950 | 433 | #391 | 138 | #579 |
| 1949 | 294 | #467 | 122 | #616 |
| 1948 | 272 | #493 | 133 | #581 |
| 1947 | 240 | #544 | 137 | #582 |
| 1946 | 114 | #770 | 51 | #940 |
| 1945 | 72 | #891 | 27 | #1,286 |
| 1944 | 83 | #839 | 32 | #1,180 |
| 1943 | 65 | #988 | 25 | #1,416 |
| 1942 | 60 | #1,013 | 31 | #1,261 |
| 1941 | 41 | #1,173 | 18 | #1,663 |
| 1940 | 53 | #983 | 24 | #1,383 |
| 1939 | 22 | #1,659 | 22 | #1,436 |
| 1938 | 36 | #1,220 | 24 | #1,388 |
| 1937 | 29 | #1,374 | 18 | #1,661 |
| 1936 | 35 | #1,217 | 17 | #1,685 |
| 1935 | 33 | #1,251 | 16 | #1,792 |
| 1934 | 30 | #1,331 | 12 | #2,186 |
| 1933 | 27 | #1,425 | 13 | #2,043 |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,720 | 7 | #3,229 |
| 1931 | 16 | #2,065 | 8 | #2,974 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,770 | 9 | #2,888 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,858 | 14 | #2,142 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,318 | 11 | #2,574 |
| 1927 | — | — | 15 | #2,154 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,562 | 12 | #2,493 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,231 | 10 | #2,847 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,456 | 11 | #2,741 |
| 1923 | — | — | 12 | #2,526 |
| 1921 | — | — | 7 | #3,701 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,175 | 5 | #4,631 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,166 | 6 | #3,954 |
| 1917 | — | — | 7 | #3,395 |
| 1910 | — | — | 6 | #1,505 |
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).