Kody
#6,116 for girls in 2025, 19 births · #1,069 for boys in 2025, 202 births
Given to boys 96.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1993 · 1,169 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 23,762since 1956
Kody over time
Rank among boys' names. Kody has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,116 | 19 | #1,069 | 202 |
| 2024 | #5,962 | 20 | #1,096 | 197 |
| 2023 | #6,169 | 19 | #992 | 222 |
| 2022 | #7,281 | 15 | #1,103 | 194 |
| 2021 | #4,964 | 26 | #977 | 227 |
| 2020 | #6,923 | 16 | #946 | 232 |
| 2019 | #7,716 | 14 | #831 | 271 |
| 2018 | #8,146 | 13 | #890 | 243 |
| 2017 | #6,808 | 17 | #826 | 270 |
| 2016 | #7,602 | 15 | #827 | 275 |
| 2015 | #8,008 | 14 | #769 | 310 |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 | #725 | 331 |
| 2013 | #8,135 | 14 | #720 | 324 |
| 2012 | #9,711 | 11 | #693 | 341 |
| 2011 | #7,783 | 15 | #629 | 372 |
| 2010 | #7,880 | 15 | #630 | 385 |
| 2009 | #9,975 | 11 | #595 | 434 |
| 2008 | #6,799 | 19 | #579 | 443 |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 | #516 | 507 |
| 2006 | #7,142 | 17 | #492 | 525 |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 | #476 | 527 |
| 2004 | #10,690 | 9 | #407 | 638 |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 | #412 | 625 |
| 2002 | #6,129 | 18 | #391 | 665 |
| 2001 | #6,322 | 17 | #368 | 721 |
| 2000 | #4,649 | 25 | #349 | 783 |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 | #357 | 732 |
| 1998 | #5,363 | 19 | #333 | 811 |
| 1997 | #6,483 | 14 | #283 | 987 |
| 1996 | #3,632 | 30 | #270 | 1,042 |
| 1995 | #3,285 | 34 | #258 | 1,092 |
| 1994 | #4,376 | 23 | #247 | 1,163 |
| 1993 | #3,506 | 31 | #245 | 1,169 |
| 1992 | #3,968 | 26 | #253 | 1,145 |
| 1991 | #3,207 | 34 | #271 | 982 |
| 1990 | #3,714 | 28 | #305 | 833 |
| 1989 | #4,121 | 23 | #355 | 638 |
| 1988 | #3,690 | 25 | #362 | 560 |
| 1987 | #3,424 | 26 | #417 | 437 |
| 1986 | #3,757 | 22 | #485 | 326 |
| 1985 | #4,282 | 18 | #499 | 303 |
| 1984 | #4,318 | 17 | #568 | 223 |
| 1983 | #4,686 | 15 | #675 | 160 |
| 1982 | #4,527 | 16 | #723 | 143 |
| 1981 | — | #865 | 105 | |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 | #957 | 88 |
| 1979 | #6,696 | 9 | #991 | 80 |
| 1978 | #4,679 | 14 | #901 | 91 |
| 1977 | #5,532 | 11 | #1,054 | 67 |
| 1976 | — | #1,123 | 57 | |
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 | #1,378 | 40 |
| 1974 | #6,900 | 7 | #1,335 | 41 |
| 1973 | — | #1,400 | 36 | |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | #1,966 | 21 |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | #1,987 | 21 |
| 1970 | — | #1,939 | 21 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,549 | 12 | |
| 1968 | — | #3,107 | 8 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,760 | 9 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,784 | 9 | |
| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 | #3,244 | 7 |
| 1964 | — | #2,205 | 14 | |
| 1963 | — | #4,048 | 5 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,305 | 7 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,097 | 8 | |
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| 1956 | — | #3,942 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kody! It came in at #3,942, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1956–1960, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Kody
- 27 spots since 2024 (#1,096 → #1,069)
- 123 spots since 2020 (#946 → #1,069)
- 300 spots since 2015 (#769 → #1,069)
- Biggest jump: 153 spots in 1978 (#1,054 → #901)
- Biggest drop: 126 spots in 2022 (#977 → #1,103)
- Debuted 1956
- Peaked 1993 at #245 (1,169 births)
- Births halved by 2005, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 45 yrs · run 1978–2021
- Highest: 1 in 1,661 boys born in 1994 were named Kody (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,456 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #245 in 1993, was only 1 in 1,678 (0.06%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 41.9% of all boys named Kody (9,956) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #3,942 (1956) | #3,942 |
| 1960s | 79 | #2,205 (1964) | #3,011 |
| 1970s | 475 | #901 (1978) | #1,407 |
| 1980s | 2,983 | #355 (1989) | #591 |
| 1990s | 9,956 | #245 (1993) | #282 |
| 2000s | 5,868 | #349 (2000) | #459 |
| 2010s | 3,122 | #629 (2011) | #754 |
| 2020s | 1,274 | #946 (2020) | #1,031 |
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.
Kody in 1990
Top girls' names in 1990
Top boys' names in 1990
More about 1990
girls
1,898,547 girls got a published name in 1990; 1 in 67,805 of them was named Kody, which outranked 75.6% of the 15,234 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,623Willow29
- #3,623Xavier29
- #3,623Xochilt29
- #3,714Kody28
- #3,714Amberley28
- #3,714Aneisha28
- #3,714Angella28
- #3,813Aaryn27
- #3,813Aleigha27
- #3,813Amarilis27
Tied with 98 names at #3,714; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,054,038 boys got a published name in 1990; 1 in 2,466 of them was named Kody, which outranked 96.8% of the 9,493 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 19.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.