Jodi

Where Jodi comes from

The dictionaries list Jodi as a given name — alternative form of Jody in its female senses — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1940
    First appearance
    #3,503 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1961
    Jodi Benson born
    American actress
  3. 1974
    Peak, #91
    3,306 babies named Jodi — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1978
    Jodi Lyn O'Keefe born
    American actress and model
  5. 1981
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #173.
In the dictionary
  • Alternative form of Jody in its female senses.
Namesakes
  • Jodi Benson · American actress, born 1961
  • Jodi Lyn O'Keefe · American actress and model, born 1978
  • Jodi Picoult · American author, born 1966
  • Jodi Balfour · South African actresses, born 1987
  • Jodi Long · American actress, born 1954

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.