Joda
Joda was last recorded in 1981, when 6 babies were given it; 112 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Joda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,587, in 1981; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
9 babies in 1958, the peak
Joda peaked in 1958, when 9 girls were given it, #4,319 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 6 | #9,587 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,950 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,988 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,157 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,653 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,648 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,768 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,532 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,041 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,205 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 9 | #4,319 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,944 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 5 | #3,960 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 6 | #3,349 | |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,611 | under 5 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 6 | #3,975 | |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,172 | under 5 | |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,598 | 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 Joda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 112 Americans recorded as Joda, 85% are girls and 15% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Joda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joda, and how old are they?
An estimated 76 Americans named Joda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 232 people named Joda (135 women and girls, 97 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 81 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.9 times 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 202,665 babies since 1880, Joda is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 157 babies recorded by SSA was a Joda (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Joda and names like it
- Compare Joda and JodyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sJoda peaked in 1958.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Joda.
- Names starting with JMost given first.