Bodey
Bodey was given to 44 boys in 2025, #2,840 among boys’ names; 642 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bodey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bodey?
#2,840 among boys’ names, 2025
Bodey rose from #3,158 in 2015 to #2,840 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 18.8 to 25.8 per million.
44 babies in 2025, the peak
Bodey peaked in 2025, when 44 boys were given it, #2,840 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 26 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44 | #2,840 | 25.8 |
| 2024 | 26 | #4,087 | 15.1 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,063 | 23.4 |
| 2022 | 28 | #3,895 | 16.0 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,026 | 14.9 |
| 2020 | 27 | #3,824 | 15.6 |
| 2019 | 18 | #5,179 | 10.0 |
| 2018 | 26 | #4,001 | 14.3 |
| 2017 | 20 | #4,764 | 10.8 |
| 2016 | 22 | #4,491 | 11.6 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #3,158 | 18.8 |
| 2014 | 25 | #4,024 | 13.0 |
| 2013 | 21 | #4,484 | 11.1 |
| 2012 | 18 | #5,052 | 9.5 |
| 2011 | 29 | #3,612 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 41 | #2,876 | 21.4 |
| 2009 | 23 | #4,295 | 11.6 |
| 2008 | 22 | #4,410 | 10.8 |
| 2007 | 19 | #4,825 | 9.2 |
| 2006 | 26 | #3,797 | 12.7 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,596 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 9 | #7,589 | 4.5 |
| 2003 | 19 | #4,291 | 9.6 |
| 2002 | 21 | #3,921 | 10.8 |
| 2001 | 5 | #10,749 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,361 | 5.1 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,691 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 6 | #7,873 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 5 | #8,842 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,557 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Bodey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bodey has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bodey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bodey, and how old are they?
An estimated 635 Americans named Bodey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 5 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 453 people named Bodey (7 women and girls, 446 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 453 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Bodey?
Bodey is a less common spelling of Bodhi: SSA has recorded 642 Bodey and 14,854 Bodhi since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 30,909 babies since 1880, Bodey is the sixth most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 44 of their 3,203 babies (1.4%), again the sixth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Bodey
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Bodey and names like it
- Compare Bodey and BodhiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBodey peaked in 2025.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bodey since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Bodey.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Bodey alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.