Meaning not yet researched.
Koda: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 778 in 2025. Its best rank was #411 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 91% of babies named Koda in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#411 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Koda: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 778 boys in 2025. Peak: #411 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 778 (2025).
In 2025, 778 US boys were named Koda, making it the 411th most common boys’ name of the year, up 53 places from #464 in 2024. That is 111 more than the 667 boys named Koda in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #411, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 778. For comparison, it was #1,036 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Koda in 39 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1984 with 12 babies. In all, 7,573 US babies have been given the name, 8.6% of them girls and 91% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 4,291 babies named Koda.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,168 US boys were named Koda; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 778. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,195 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Koda ranked highest in Wyoming in 2025, at #81 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Coda (1,144 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kodah and Codah are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kodah (551), Codah (73).
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.
No nicknames listed for Koda in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 12 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wyoming | 6 | #81 | — |
| Hawaii | 8 | #138 | — |
| Oklahoma | 30 | #167 | #552 |
| Alaska | 5 | #182 | — |
| Nevada | 13 | #237 | — |
| Utah | 22 | #240 | #652 |
| Arizona | 28 | #284 | #699 |
| Louisiana | 18 | #285 | — |
| Kansas | 13 | #285 | — |
| Tennessee | 31 | #287 | #791 |
| Oregon | 14 | #304 | #600 |
| Washington | 24 | #315 | #528 |
| Nebraska | 8 | #317 | — |
| Georgia | 37 | #332 | — |
| North Carolina | 35 | #334 | #1,231 |
| Kentucky | 15 | #338 | — |
| Mississippi | 9 | #355 | — |
| Alabama | 15 | #367 | — |
| Missouri | 17 | #383 | #704 |
| Colorado | 16 | #393 | #661 |
| Texas | 89 | #401 | #1,268 |
| Michigan | 22 | #403 | #928 |
| Idaho | 6 | #404 | — |
| Minnesota | 14 | #405 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 26 | #408 | #992 |
| Ohio | 26 | #416 | #813 |
| Arkansas | 8 | #422 | — |
| Iowa | 7 | #470 | — |
| Virginia | 16 | #485 | — |
| California | 66 | #488 | #1,186 |
| Florida | 34 | #524 | #1,462 |
| Wisconsin | 9 | #548 | #816 |
| New Jersey | 12 | #592 | — |
| Indiana | 10 | #647 | — |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #667 | — |
| South Carolina | 6 | #707 | — |
| Maryland | 5 | #869 | — |
| Illinois | 9 | #905 | — |
| New York | 12 | #1,024 | #1,552 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 80 | #2,289 | 778 | #411 |
| 2024 | 59 | #2,842 | 667 | #464 |
| 2023 | 67 | #2,632 | 777 | #411 |
| 2022 | 72 | #2,505 | 659 | #468 |
| 2021 | 54 | #3,051 | 566 | #520 |
| 2020 | 42 | #3,578 | 470 | #589 |
| 2019 | 32 | #4,401 | 426 | #633 |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,405 | 344 | #704 |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,439 | 252 | #865 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,085 | 229 | #928 |
| 2015 | 17 | #7,130 | 195 | #1,036 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,164 | 164 | #1,156 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,827 | 149 | #1,210 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,038 | 132 | #1,306 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,458 | 117 | #1,422 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,917 | 99 | #1,595 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,347 | 111 | #1,507 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,805 | 96 | #1,624 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,507 | 97 | #1,613 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,690 | 85 | #1,676 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,816 | 119 | #1,294 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,637 | 182 | #932 |
| 2003 | — | — | 48 | #2,253 |
| 2002 | — | — | 10 | #6,819 |
| 2001 | — | — | 16 | #4,801 |
| 2000 | — | — | 12 | #5,758 |
| 1999 | — | — | 9 | #6,856 |
| 1998 | — | — | 13 | #5,052 |
| 1997 | — | — | 7 | #7,740 |
| 1995 | — | — | 9 | #6,200 |
| 1994 | — | — | 7 | #7,407 |
| 1992 | — | — | 7 | #7,086 |
| 1991 | — | — | 10 | #5,315 |
| 1989 | — | — | 9 | #5,405 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,837 | 8 | #5,483 |
| 1987 | — | — | 6 | #6,572 |
| 1986 | — | — | 8 | #5,122 |
| 1985 | — | — | 14 | #3,312 |
| 1984 | — | — | 12 | #3,578 |
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).