Cody
Cody was given to 1,076 boys in 2025, #318 among boys’ names; 297,177 Americans have been recorded with it since 1884 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 285,000 Americans named Cody and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 26 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cody by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Cody mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Cody is “a unisex given name transferred from the surname.”
/ˈkoʊdi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Cody?
#318 among boys’ names, 2025
Cody fell from #237 in 2015 to #318 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.83 to 0.63 per 1,000.
20,079 babies in 1992, the peak
Cody peaked in 1992, when 20,079 babies were given it (19,876 boys, #24 among boys’ names). The 1,098 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 5% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,076 | #318 | 0.63 |
| 2024 | 1,168 | #289 | 0.68 |
| 2023 | 1,086 | #304 | 0.63 |
| 2022 | 1,115 | #302 | 0.64 |
| 2021 | 1,076 | #312 | 0.62 |
| 2020 | 1,133 | #297 | 0.66 |
| 2019 | 1,212 | #285 | 0.68 |
| 2018 | 1,254 | #280 | 0.69 |
| 2017 | 1,298 | #278 | 0.70 |
| 2016 | 1,409 | #255 | 0.74 |
Every recorded year (123)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,596 | #237 | 0.83 |
| 2014 | 1,748 | #219 | 0.91 |
| 2013 | 1,758 | #214 | 0.93 |
| 2012 | 2,011 | #188 | 1.1 |
| 2011 | 2,177 | #173 | 1.1 |
| 2010 | 2,447 | #157 | 1.3 |
| 2009 | 3,006 | #135 | 1.5 |
| 2008 | 3,509 | #123 | 1.7 |
| 2007 | 3,562 | #120 | 1.7 |
| 2006 | 4,106 | #105 | 2.0 |
| 2005 | 4,529 | #96 | 2.3 |
| 2004 | 5,125 | #84 | 2.6 |
| 2003 | 5,400 | #78 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 5,939 | #71 | 3.1 |
| 2001 | 6,575 | #64 | 3.4 |
| 2000 | 7,132 | #60 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 7,864 | #45 | 4.1 |
| 1998 | 8,810 | #43 | 4.6 |
| 1997 | 10,296 | #36 | 5.5 |
| 1996 | 12,954 | #31 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 15,566 | #26 | 8.2 |
| 1994 | 17,589 | #25 | 9.1 |
| 1993 | 19,152 | #24 | 9.8 |
| 1992 | 19,876 | #24 | 10.0 |
| 1991 | 18,980 | #24 | 9.4 |
| 1990 | 15,399 | #31 | 7.5 |
| 1989 | 10,823 | #45 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 10,583 | #43 | 5.5 |
| 1987 | 8,675 | #49 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 6,934 | #56 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 7,096 | #52 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 5,209 | #62 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 3,505 | #81 | 2.0 |
| 1982 | 3,180 | #95 | 1.8 |
| 1981 | 2,328 | #119 | 1.3 |
| 1980 | 1,956 | #143 | 1.1 |
| 1979 | 1,851 | #147 | 1.1 |
| 1978 | 1,683 | #152 | 1.0 |
| 1977 | 1,266 | #183 | 0.77 |
| 1976 | 1,098 | #200 | 0.70 |
| 1975 | 899 | #227 | 0.58 |
| 1974 | 800 | #251 | 0.51 |
| 1973 | 651 | #283 | 0.42 |
| 1972 | 484 | #352 | 0.30 |
| 1971 | 410 | #401 | 0.23 |
| 1970 | 381 | #419 | 0.21 |
| 1969 | 255 | #479 | 0.14 |
| 1968 | 210 | #524 | 0.12 |
| 1967 | 194 | #534 | 0.11 |
| 1966 | 159 | #595 | 0.09 |
| 1965 | 167 | #589 | 0.09 |
| 1964 | 191 | #573 | 0.10 |
| 1963 | 175 | #594 | 0.09 |
| 1962 | 141 | #651 | 0.07 |
| 1961 | 113 | #720 | 0.05 |
| 1960 | 88 | #813 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 87 | #816 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 95 | #760 | 0.04 |
| 1957 | 80 | #842 | 0.04 |
| 1956 | 73 | #874 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 75 | #846 | 0.04 |
| 1954 | 74 | #842 | 0.04 |
| 1953 | 62 | #909 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 67 | #852 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 54 | #950 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 42 | #1,086 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 31 | #1,300 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 43 | #1,082 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 33 | #1,275 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 28 | #1,331 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 27 | #1,272 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 29 | #1,238 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 23 | #1,467 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 18 | #1,688 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 23 | #1,419 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 19 | #1,584 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 20 | #1,500 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 21 | #1,486 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 22 | #1,455 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 23 | #1,392 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,050 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 23 | #1,430 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 17 | #1,720 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 15 | #1,934 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 25 | #1,400 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 20 | #1,654 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,338 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 17 | #1,915 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 17 | #1,971 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 19 | #1,801 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,194 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 18 | #1,907 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 28 | #1,387 | 0.03 |
| 1922 | 22 | #1,659 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 28 | #1,420 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 24 | #1,550 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 23 | #1,539 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 24 | #1,502 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 26 | #1,369 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 18 | #1,710 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 15 | #1,891 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,799 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 9 | #1,974 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 13 | #1,369 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,413 | 0.03 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,222 | 0.04 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,306 | 0.04 |
| 1906 | 5 | #1,278 | 0.04 |
| 1899 | 6 | #956 | 0.06 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,094 | 0.04 |
| 1889 | 6 | #894 | 0.05 |
| 1888 | 7 | #833 | 0.06 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,000 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cody a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 297,177 Americans recorded as Cody, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 22 girls and 1,076 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Cody: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cody, and how old are they?
285,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 297,177 Americans ever recorded as Cody. The median Cody alive today is 32 years old; half are between 26 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 248,588 people named Cody (4,098 women and girls, 244,490 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 282,057 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 85 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,260 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 12,100 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 173,000 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 81,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 17,100 |
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 Cody born?
The states with the most babies named Cody are California, Texas and Florida, with 30% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 140 | #264 | 0.6× |
| Texas | 115 | #323 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 59 | #327 | 0.8× |
| New York | 54 | #330 | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 41 | #283 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 37 | #320 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 37 | #256 | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 35 | #328 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 33 | #328 | 0.7× |
| Arizona | 31 | #260 | 1.1× |
Where Cody is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cody is most over-represented in Wyoming: since 1910 it was given 2.2 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 Cody 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 350,155 babies since 1880, Cody is the most given (85% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,098 of their 2,335 babies (47%), 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 Cody
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1880-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Zachery | 29,874 |
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 Cody and names like it
- Compare Cody and KodyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCody peaked in 1992.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cody since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Cody: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Cody.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Cody alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.