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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 118,135 of them was named Kody, which outranked 59.7% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,230Ziyonna16
- #7,230Zuly16
- #7,230Zuzu16
- #7,602Kody15
- #7,602Aalyah15
- #7,602Aamilah15
- #7,602Abeeha15
- #7,988Aadhira14
- #7,988Aanaya14
- #7,988Abia14
Tied with 385 names at #7,602; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 6,901 of them was named Kody, which outranked 94.2% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).