Bodhi
Bodhi was given to 1,301 boys in 2025, #265 among boys’ names; 14,854 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 14,700 Americans named Bodhi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 10.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bodhi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bodhi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bodhi is “a male given name from Sanskrit.”
Modern English usage from bodhi; influenced by characters in films and comics.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bodhi?
#265 among boys’ names, 2025
Bodhi rose from #498 in 2015 to #265 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.31 to 0.76 per 1,000.
1,331 babies in 2025, the peak
Bodhi peaked in 2025, when 1,331 babies were given it (1,301 boys, #265 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 1,117 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,301 | #265 | 0.76 |
| 2024 | 1,117 | #301 | 0.65 |
| 2023 | 1,126 | #294 | 0.66 |
| 2022 | 1,125 | #300 | 0.64 |
| 2021 | 1,220 | #284 | 0.70 |
| 2020 | 1,153 | #295 | 0.67 |
| 2019 | 1,133 | #300 | 0.63 |
| 2018 | 1,090 | #312 | 0.60 |
| 2017 | 1,173 | #300 | 0.63 |
| 2016 | 921 | #361 | 0.49 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 585 | #498 | 0.31 |
| 2014 | 436 | #612 | 0.23 |
| 2013 | 271 | #807 | 0.14 |
| 2012 | 238 | #880 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 219 | #920 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 225 | #907 | 0.12 |
| 2009 | 144 | #1,241 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 138 | #1,265 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 124 | #1,351 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 105 | #1,460 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 70 | #1,837 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 55 | #2,130 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 47 | #2,272 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,089 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 36 | #2,617 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 18 | #4,218 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 28 | #2,945 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 25 | #3,098 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 25 | #2,986 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 18 | #3,686 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,535 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 15 | #4,109 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 18 | #3,505 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 14 | #4,121 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,149 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #5,937 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,686 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Bodhi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 14,854 Americans recorded as Bodhi, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 30 girls and 1,301 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Bodhi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bodhi, and how old are they?
14,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 14,854 Americans ever recorded as Bodhi. The median Bodhi alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 7,239 people named Bodhi (299 women and girls, 6,940 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,780 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 14 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 75 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,570 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 13,100 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Bodhi born?
The states with the most babies named Bodhi are California, Texas and Florida, with 25% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 169 | #231 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 81 | #440 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 73 | #280 | 0.8× |
| Washington | 66 | #120 | 1.7× |
| Ohio | 62 | #208 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 51 | #239 | 0.8× |
| Missouri | 44 | #158 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 42 | #295 | 0.8× |
| Colorado | 39 | #178 | 1.9× |
| Michigan | 38 | #265 | 0.7× |
Where Bodhi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bodhi is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1976 it was given 2.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Bodhi with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 31,619 babies since 1880, Bodhi is the most given (47% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,331 of their 3,349 babies (40%), again the 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 Bodhi
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 Bodhi and names like it
- Compare Bodhi and BodieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBodhi peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bodhi since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Bodhi: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Bodhi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Bodhi alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.