Bodie
Bodie was given to 1,249 boys in 2025, #275 among boys’ names; 8,704 Americans have been recorded with it since 1920 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,580 Americans named Bodie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 2 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bodie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bodie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bodie is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
As a Scottish surname, variant of Body, Boddy, Boddie.
As a French surname, variant of Bodi, see Beaudin.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bodie?
#275 among boys’ names, 2025
Bodie rose from #958 in 2015 to #275 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.11 to 0.73 per 1,000.
1,268 babies in 2025, the peak
Bodie peaked in 2025, when 1,268 babies were given it (1,249 boys, #275 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 987 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,249 | #275 | 0.73 |
| 2024 | 987 | #346 | 0.57 |
| 2023 | 827 | #387 | 0.48 |
| 2022 | 637 | #484 | 0.36 |
| 2021 | 563 | #521 | 0.32 |
| 2020 | 447 | #612 | 0.26 |
| 2019 | 379 | #678 | 0.21 |
| 2018 | 302 | #769 | 0.17 |
| 2017 | 277 | #816 | 0.15 |
| 2016 | 277 | #823 | 0.15 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 215 | #958 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 214 | #979 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 132 | #1,308 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 139 | #1,267 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 170 | #1,091 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 187 | #1,039 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 124 | #1,377 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 139 | #1,254 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 144 | #1,224 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 182 | #1,009 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 106 | #1,401 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 75 | #1,699 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 89 | #1,465 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 108 | #1,255 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 29 | #3,066 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 39 | #2,429 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 38 | #2,352 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 33 | #2,556 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 38 | #2,232 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 22 | #3,204 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 26 | #2,768 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 28 | #2,621 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 26 | #2,706 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 21 | #3,112 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 11 | #4,787 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,413 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 16 | #3,214 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,517 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,495 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 12 | #3,614 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,727 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,086 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,074 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 22 | #2,276 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,174 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,451 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 15 | #2,805 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 13 | #3,057 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,745 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 14 | #2,770 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 12 | #2,966 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 13 | #2,730 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,376 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,003 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #3,882 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,340 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,268 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 12 | #2,429 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 14 | #2,201 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 11 | #2,563 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 10 | #2,699 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,058 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,602 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #3,935 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,372 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 6 | #3,868 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Bodie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 8,704 Americans recorded as Bodie, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 19 girls and 1,249 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Bodie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bodie, and how old are they?
8,580 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 8,704 Americans ever recorded as Bodie. The median Bodie alive today is 5 years old; half are between 2 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 3,767 people named Bodie (69 women and girls, 3,698 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,956 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 50 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 117 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 230 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,620 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,570 |
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 Bodie born?
The states with the most babies named Bodie are California, Texas and North Carolina, with 18% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 84 | #391 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 77 | #435 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 68 | #184 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 56 | #230 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 49 | #204 | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 47 | #181 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 46 | #256 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 46 | #268 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 41 | #451 | 0.4× |
| New York | 38 | #451 | 0.3× |
Where Bodie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bodie is most over-represented in Utah: since 1920 it was given 1.8 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 Bodie 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 31,641 babies since 1880, Bodie is the second most given (28% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,268 of their 3,332 babies (38%), again the second 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 Bodie
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 Bodie and names like it
- Compare Bodie and BodhiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBodie peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bodie since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Bodie: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Bodie.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Bodie alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.