Jodi
Jodi is given to both girls and boys: 36 girls and 7 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,028 among girls’ names and #10,150 among boys’, #6,240 among all names counting both); 80,657 Americans have been recorded with it since 1940 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 74,000 Americans named Jodi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 54 years old and half are between 47 and 60.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jodi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jodi?
#4,028 among girls’ names, 2025
Jodi fell from #3,626 in 2015 to #4,028 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 24.1 to 22.4 per million.
4,228 babies in 1970, the peak
Jodi peaked in 1970, when 4,228 babies were given it (4,186 girls, #95 among girls’ names). The 43 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 1% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #4,028 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 49 | #3,254 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 35 | #4,147 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 46 | #3,438 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 51 | #3,183 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 44 | #3,470 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 43 | #3,582 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,460 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 42 | #3,660 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,956 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (86)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 43 | #3,626 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 65 | #2,698 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 48 | #3,342 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 57 | #2,987 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 68 | #2,622 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 54 | #3,092 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 69 | #2,660 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 78 | #2,453 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 97 | #2,093 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 100 | #1,994 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 113 | #1,748 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 110 | #1,751 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 134 | #1,463 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 161 | #1,239 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 160 | #1,243 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 170 | #1,176 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 222 | #941 | 0.13 |
| 1998 | 232 | #909 | 0.13 |
| 1997 | 257 | #809 | 0.15 |
| 1996 | 282 | #750 | 0.16 |
| 1995 | 321 | #665 | 0.18 |
| 1994 | 324 | #661 | 0.18 |
| 1993 | 385 | #602 | 0.21 |
| 1992 | 445 | #531 | 0.24 |
| 1991 | 431 | #546 | 0.23 |
| 1990 | 518 | #473 | 0.27 |
| 1989 | 614 | #403 | 0.33 |
| 1988 | 712 | #348 | 0.40 |
| 1987 | 791 | #309 | 0.45 |
| 1986 | 895 | #277 | 0.52 |
| 1985 | 1,086 | #237 | 0.63 |
| 1984 | 1,229 | #211 | 0.73 |
| 1983 | 1,428 | #188 | 0.85 |
| 1982 | 1,569 | #176 | 0.93 |
| 1981 | 1,579 | #173 | 0.95 |
| 1980 | 1,700 | #167 | 1.0 |
| 1979 | 1,977 | #140 | 1.2 |
| 1978 | 2,265 | #128 | 1.5 |
| 1977 | 2,730 | #105 | 1.8 |
| 1976 | 2,672 | #102 | 1.8 |
| 1975 | 3,107 | #94 | 2.1 |
| 1974 | 3,306 | #91 | 2.3 |
| 1973 | 3,024 | #100 | 2.1 |
| 1972 | 3,259 | #97 | 2.1 |
| 1971 | 3,826 | #94 | 2.3 |
| 1970 | 4,186 | #95 | 2.4 |
| 1969 | 3,865 | #95 | 2.3 |
| 1968 | 3,598 | #97 | 2.2 |
| 1967 | 3,367 | #103 | 2.0 |
| 1966 | 3,031 | #118 | 1.8 |
| 1965 | 3,054 | #127 | 1.7 |
| 1964 | 2,800 | #145 | 1.5 |
| 1963 | 1,899 | #196 | 1.0 |
| 1962 | 1,851 | #198 | 0.94 |
| 1961 | 1,848 | #197 | 0.92 |
| 1960 | 1,561 | #213 | 0.77 |
| 1959 | 1,398 | #226 | 0.69 |
| 1958 | 1,272 | #240 | 0.63 |
| 1957 | 904 | #305 | 0.44 |
| 1956 | 570 | #368 | 0.28 |
| 1955 | 372 | #470 | 0.19 |
| 1954 | 273 | #537 | 0.14 |
| 1953 | 219 | #596 | 0.12 |
| 1952 | 125 | #812 | 0.07 |
| 1951 | 84 | #1,016 | 0.05 |
| 1950 | 73 | #1,079 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 52 | #1,269 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 40 | #1,466 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 36 | #1,589 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 19 | #2,189 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,823 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,334 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,988 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,913 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,117 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,664 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jodi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 80,657 Americans recorded as Jodi, 99% are girls and 1% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jodi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jodi, and how old are they?
74,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 80,657 Americans ever recorded as Jodi. The median Jodi alive today is 54 years old; half are between 47 and 60.
The 2020 Census counted 71,748 people named Jodi (71,007 women and girls, 741 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 75,628 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 29 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 13,100 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 45,700 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 12,300 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,180 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 656 |
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 Jodi born?
The states with the most babies named Jodi are New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania, with 24% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 6,361 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 6,205 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 5,578 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 5,103 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 5,054 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 4,354 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Minnesota | 4,294 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Wisconsin | 4,244 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Iowa | 2,653 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Texas | 2,250 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Jodi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jodi is most over-represented in North Dakota: since 1940 it was given 2.9 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 girls’ 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 Jodi 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 202,665 babies since 1880, Jodi is the second most given (40% of them). In 2025 it was given to 43 of their 157 babies (27%), the third 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 Jodi
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 Jodi and names like it
- Compare Jodi and JodyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sJodi peaked in 1970.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jodi since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Jodi.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Jodi alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with JMost given first.