Coda
Coda is given to both girls and boys: 11 girls and 49 boys were given it in 2025 (#8,984 among girls’ names and #2,650 among boys’, #4,967 among all names counting both); 1,144 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,120 Americans named Coda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Coda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Coda?
#2,650 among boys’ names, 2025
Coda rose from #3,704 in 2015 to #2,650 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 15.1 to 28.7 per million.
70 babies in 2024, the peak
Coda peaked in 2024, when 70 babies were given it (56 boys, #2,447 among boys’ names). The 60 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 86% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,984 | 49 | #2,650 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,671 | 56 | #2,447 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,725 | 41 | #3,014 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,637 | 54 | #2,524 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,225 | 44 | #2,828 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,509 | 48 | #2,625 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,230 | 43 | #2,865 |
| 2018 | under 5 | 37 | #3,111 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 38 | #3,076 | |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,069 | 38 | #3,070 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 29 | #3,704 | |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,139 | 37 | #3,044 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,131 | 30 | #3,511 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,737 | 34 | #3,240 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,384 | 38 | #3,004 |
| 2010 | under 5 | 15 | #5,785 | |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,018 | 26 | #3,936 |
| 2008 | under 5 | 28 | #3,754 | |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,286 | 28 | #3,702 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,549 | 18 | #4,894 |
| 2005 | under 5 | 36 | #2,907 | |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,557 | 51 | #2,244 |
| 2003 | under 5 | 23 | #3,743 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 11 | #6,149 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 7 | #8,463 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 12 | #5,623 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 7 | #8,003 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 8 | #6,959 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 9 | #6,170 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 11 | #5,240 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 11 | #5,184 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 14 | #4,254 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 8 | #6,038 | |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,409 | 7 | #6,528 |
| 1989 | under 5 | 5 | #8,091 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 7 | #5,428 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 5 | #6,706 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 5 | #4,473 | |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,551 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Coda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,144 Americans recorded as Coda, 15% are girls and 85% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Coda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Coda, and how old are they?
1,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,144 Americans ever recorded as Coda. The median Coda alive today is 11 years old; half are between 5 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 909 people named Coda (190 women and girls, 719 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 767 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 70 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 398 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 653 |
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).
How common is the spelling Coda?
Coda is a less common spelling of Koda: SSA has recorded 1,144 Coda and 7,573 Koda since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 339,256 babies since 1880, Coda is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 60 of their 2,320 babies (2.6%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Coda
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 Coda and names like it
- Compare Coda and KodaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sCoda peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Coda since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Coda.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Coda alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.