Jody — #6400 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Jody

The Social Security Administration has registered 55,829 babies named Jody between 1919 and 2024, spanning 106 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jody currently holds the #6400 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1958, when 2,226 babies received it in a single year. Jody is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 31,520 additional births since 1910.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jody performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 17,669 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Jody shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 4,486 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Jody in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jody in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 55,829 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.