Koda
Koda was given to 778 boys in 2025, #411 among boys’ names; 7,573 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,510 Americans named Koda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Koda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Koda mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Koda is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Koda?
#411 among boys’ names, 2025
Koda rose from #1,036 in 2015 to #411 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.10 to 0.46 per 1,000.
858 babies in 2025, the peak
Koda peaked in 2025, when 858 babies were given it (778 boys, #411 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 667 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 778 | #411 | 0.46 |
| 2024 | 667 | #464 | 0.39 |
| 2023 | 777 | #411 | 0.45 |
| 2022 | 659 | #468 | 0.38 |
| 2021 | 566 | #520 | 0.32 |
| 2020 | 470 | #589 | 0.27 |
| 2019 | 426 | #633 | 0.24 |
| 2018 | 344 | #704 | 0.19 |
| 2017 | 252 | #865 | 0.14 |
| 2016 | 229 | #928 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 195 | #1,036 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 164 | #1,156 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 149 | #1,210 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 132 | #1,306 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 117 | #1,422 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 99 | #1,595 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 111 | #1,506 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 96 | #1,624 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 97 | #1,613 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 85 | #1,676 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 119 | #1,293 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 182 | #931 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 48 | #2,249 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,812 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 16 | #4,795 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,750 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,850 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 13 | #5,046 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,734 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,194 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,401 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,079 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,308 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,398 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,477 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,565 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,117 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,309 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 12 | #3,575 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Koda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 7,573 Americans recorded as Koda, 9% are girls and 91% boys. In 2025 it went to 80 girls and 778 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Koda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Koda, and how old are they?
7,510 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 7,573 Americans ever recorded as Koda. The median Koda alive today is 5 years old; half are between 3 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 3,026 people named Koda (319 women and girls, 2,707 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,382 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 90 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,250 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,170 |
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 Koda born?
The states with the most babies named Koda are Texas, California and Florida, with 27% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 101 | #401 | 0.8× |
| California | 72 | #488 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 41 | #524 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 37 | #332 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 35 | #334 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 31 | #287 | 0.9× |
| Oklahoma | 30 | #167 | 2.3× |
| Arizona | 28 | #284 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 26 | #416 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 26 | #408 | 0.6× |
Where Koda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Koda is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1984 it was given 2.3 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 Koda 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 331,912 babies since 1880, Koda is the third most given (2.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 858 of their 2,300 babies (37%), the second 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 Koda
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 Koda and names like it
- Compare Koda and CodyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKoda peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Koda since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Koda.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Koda alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.