Coda

#8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births · #2,641 for boys in 2025, 49 births
Given to boys 84.6% of the time

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Peak · boys
2004 · 51 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
968
since 1924

Coda over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201924peak #4,417, 1916peak #2,238, 2004girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#8,86011#2,64149
2024#7,59414#2,44456
2023#7,64014#3,00541
2022#8,54212#2,51754
2021#6,17419#2,81944
2020#8,40612#2,61748
2019#8,13813#2,85143
2018#3,10637
2017#3,07138
2016#10,8599#3,05938
2015#3,68429
2014#16,5135#3,03837
2013#16,5475#3,49730
2012#8,63213#3,23134
2011#11,1819#3,00038
2010#5,74115
2009#13,7047#3,91926
2008#3,74428
2007#10,12911#3,68728
2006#15,1526#4,86518
2005#2,90236
2004#14,1796#2,23851
2003#3,73223
2002#6,08811
2001#8,3397
2000#5,58812
1999#7,8747
1998#6,8438
1997#6,1009
1996#5,18711
1995#5,12411
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1990#12,9585#6,4157
1989#7,9055
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First appearance
1924

The first year at least five boys were named Coda! It came in at #4,347, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1924–1985, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Coda
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 197 spots since 2024 (#2,444#2,641)
  • 24 spots since 2020 (#2,617#2,641)
  • 1,043 spots since 2015 (#3,684#2,641)
Rise & fade · boys
80 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1924
  • Peaked 2004 at #2,238 (51 births)
  • Births halved by 2006, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 30,766
  • Highest: 1 in 30,766 boys born in 2024 were named Coda (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 34,859 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,238 in 2004, was only 1 in 38,921 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 35.0% of all boys named Coda (339) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1924
  • Mostly girls until 1923, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1920s5#4,347 (1924)#4,347
1930s0
1940s0
1950s0
1960s0
1970s0
1980s17#5,332 (1986)#6,587
1990s75#4,227 (1993)#5,964
2000s240#2,238 (2004)#4,510
2010s339#2,851 (2019)#3,428
2020s292#2,444 (2024)#2,674

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Coda in 1924

boys
#4,347
5 births · 1 in 226,548 boys

Top boys' names in 1924

  1. #1Robert60,802
  2. #2John59,052
  3. #3William53,506
  4. #4James52,942
  5. #5Charles30,460
  6. #6George27,373
  7. #7Joseph25,421
  8. #8Richard21,244
  9. #9Edward21,126
  10. #10Donald17,929
  11. #4,347Coda5
More about 1924

boys

1,132,742 boys got a published name in 1924; 1 in 226,548 of them was named Coda, which outranked 12.5% of the 4,970 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Coda
  1. #3,867Yoshinori6
  2. #3,867Ysmael6
  3. #3,867Zaven6
  4. #4,347Coda5
  5. #4,347Ab5
  6. #4,347Abby5
  7. #4,347Abert5

Tied with 623 names at #4,347; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1923
Risers
  1. 436Faustino#1,420#984
  2. 338Conway#1,275#937
  3. 310Coolidge#1,041#731
  4. 291Chas#1,235#944
  5. 287Leopoldo#1,194#907
Fallers
  1. 466Cliff#992#1,458
  2. 403Harding#860#1,263
  3. 367Dempsey#750#1,117
  4. 363Price#924#1,287
  5. 350Terrence#873#1,223

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1924