Codey
Codey was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,406 among boys’ names; 3,247 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,140 Americans named Codey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 26 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Codey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Codey?
#12,406 among boys’ names, 2025
Codey fell from #6,052 in 2015 to #12,406 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.3 to 2.9 per million.
230 babies in 1992, the peak
Codey peaked in 1992, when 230 boys were given it, #680 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,406 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,153 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 7 | #9,924 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,402 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 15 | #5,864 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,215 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 7 | #9,885 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 20 | #4,810 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 14 | #6,052 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 19 | #4,907 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 14 | #5,977 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 21 | #4,562 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 26 | #3,905 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 23 | #4,258 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 31 | #3,486 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 55 | #2,350 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 49 | #2,538 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 65 | #2,040 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 51 | #2,299 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,075 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 67 | #1,783 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 98 | #1,344 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 70 | #1,656 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 107 | #1,239 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 102 | #1,227 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 109 | #1,146 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 142 | #946 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 184 | #788 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 198 | #761 | 0.10 |
| 1994 | 222 | #698 | 0.11 |
| 1993 | 228 | #680 | 0.12 |
| 1992 | 230 | #680 | 0.12 |
| 1991 | 206 | #702 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 161 | #796 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 126 | #900 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 130 | #831 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 89 | #1,004 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 66 | #1,163 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 40 | #1,598 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 26 | #2,048 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 21 | #2,348 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 17 | #2,726 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 15 | #2,921 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,568 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 10 | #3,851 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 12 | #3,246 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,650 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,513 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #4,907 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,531 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Codey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Codey has been given almost only to boys: 28 girls in 50 years of records.
Girls and boys named Codey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Codey, and how old are they?
3,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 3,247 Americans ever recorded as Codey. The median Codey alive today is 32 years old; half are between 26 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 2,563 people named Codey (77 women and girls, 2,486 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,147 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 57 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,900 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,050 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 124 |
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 Codey born?
The states with the most babies named Codey are Ohio, California and Indiana, with 30% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Indiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 206 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| California | 155 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 128 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 126 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 114 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 107 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 103 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 94 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Missouri | 81 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 70 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Codey is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Codey is most over-represented in Indiana: since 1972 it was given 1.7 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 Codey with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Codey?
Codey is a less common spelling of Cody: SSA has recorded 3,247 Codey and 297,177 Cody since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 332,016 babies since 1880, Codey is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 1,413 babies (<1%), the fifth 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 Codey
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 Codey and names like it
- Compare Codey and CodyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCodey peaked in 1992.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Codey since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Codey.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Codey alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.