Meaning not yet researched.
Kody: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 202 in 2025. Its best rank was #245 in 1993.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #245 in 1993; #1,070 in 2025. About 91% of babies named Kody in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,070 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1993, at #245.
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Kody: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 202 boys in 2025. Peak: #245 in 1993 · most boys in one year: 1,169 (1993).
In 2025, 202 US boys were named Kody, making it the 1,070th most common boys’ name of the year, up 28 places from #1,098 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 197 boys named Kody in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #245, reached in 1993. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,169. For comparison, it was #770 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kody in 66 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1956 with 5 babies. In all, 24,641 US babies have been given the name, 3.6% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 10,207 babies named Kody.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,333 US boys were named Kody; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 275. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,456 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kody ranked highest in Kentucky in 2025, at #764 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Cody (297,177 babies since 1880), Kodi (7,281 babies since 1880), Codi (5,598 babies since 1880) and Codey (3,247 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kodee 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: Kodee (691).
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 Kody 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 36 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 5 | #764 | — |
| South Carolina | 5 | #812 | — |
| Indiana | 7 | #814 | — |
| Georgia | 11 | #824 | #723 |
| Maryland | 5 | #870 | #674 |
| California | 25 | #921 | #729 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #969 | #635 |
| Texas | 22 | #1,052 | #896 |
| New York | 11 | #1,087 | #925 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,117 | #792 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,119 | — |
| Florida | 11 | #1,166 | #824 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,199 | #739 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,212 | #1,048 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,385 | #685 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,231 | 202 | #1,070 |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,057 | 197 | #1,098 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,291 | 222 | #994 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,478 | 194 | #1,106 |
| 2021 | 26 | #5,031 | 227 | #979 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,080 | 232 | #948 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,954 | 271 | #832 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,382 | 243 | #892 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,963 | 270 | #826 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,806 | 275 | #827 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,235 | 310 | #770 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,881 | 331 | #725 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,376 | 324 | #721 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,097 | 341 | #693 |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,008 | 372 | #629 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,107 | 385 | #632 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,349 | 434 | #595 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,955 | 443 | #580 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,267 | 507 | #516 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,338 | 525 | #492 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,559 | 527 | #476 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,208 | 638 | #408 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,190 | 625 | #413 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,278 | 665 | #391 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,484 | 721 | #368 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,726 | 783 | #350 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,986 | 732 | #357 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,482 | 811 | #334 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,667 | 987 | #283 |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,681 | 1,042 | #270 |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,324 | 1,092 | #258 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,443 | 1,163 | #247 |
| 1993 | 31 | #3,541 | 1,169 | #245 |
| 1992 | 26 | #4,023 | 1,145 | #253 |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,250 | 982 | #271 |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,758 | 833 | #305 |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,191 | 638 | #355 |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,755 | 560 | #362 |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,472 | 437 | #418 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,822 | 326 | #485 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,355 | 303 | #501 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,412 | 223 | #570 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,783 | 160 | #676 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,617 | 143 | #727 |
| 1981 | — | — | 105 | #868 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,762 | 88 | #960 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,010 | 80 | #998 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,803 | 91 | #906 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,687 | 67 | #1,057 |
| 1976 | — | — | 57 | #1,135 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,808 | 40 | #1,392 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,257 | 41 | #1,343 |
| 1973 | — | — | 36 | #1,420 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,896 | 21 | #2,000 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,936 | 21 | #2,016 |
| 1970 | — | — | 21 | #1,963 |
| 1969 | — | — | 12 | #2,625 |
| 1968 | — | — | 8 | #3,252 |
| 1967 | — | — | 9 | #2,883 |
| 1966 | — | — | 9 | #2,892 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,154 | 7 | #3,414 |
| 1964 | — | — | 14 | #2,263 |
| 1963 | — | — | 5 | #4,360 |
| 1962 | — | — | 7 | #3,484 |
| 1961 | — | — | 8 | #3,242 |
| 1956 | — | — | 5 | #4,220 |
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).