Dody
Dody was last recorded in 1980, when 8 babies were given it; 338 Americans have been recorded with it between 1947 and 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dody by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dody?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #7,594, in 1980; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
25 babies in 1959, the peak
Dody peaked in 1959, when 25 girls were given it, #2,302 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 8 | #7,594 | 4.8 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,532 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,279 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,776 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,364 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,088 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,419 | 8.9 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,595 | 7.9 |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,290 | 12.0 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,826 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 7 | #6,118 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,568 | 6.1 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,705 | 5.5 |
| 1966 | 8 | #4,977 | 4.7 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,429 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,742 | 6.9 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,667 | 6.7 |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,325 | 7.6 |
| 1961 | 25 | #2,421 | 12.4 |
| 1960 | 24 | #2,453 | 11.9 |
| 1959 | 25 | #2,302 | 12.4 |
| 1958 | 21 | #2,519 | 10.4 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,356 | 6.4 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,746 | 5.5 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,257 | 6.6 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,293 | 3.1 |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,981 | 3.3 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,502 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dody a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dody has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dody: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dody, and how old are they?
An estimated 294 Americans named Dody and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 55 and 67. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 370 people named Dody (313 women and girls, 57 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 307 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,328 babies since 1880, Dody is the third most given (15% of them).
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 Dody
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 Dody and names like it
- Compare Dody and DodieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDody peaked in 1959.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dody since 1910.
- The top names of 1959The year the most babies were named Dody.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Dody alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.