Kodey
Kodey was last recorded in 2017, when 6 babies were given it; 695 Americans have been recorded with it between 1983 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kodey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kodey mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kodey is “a male given name transferred from the surname”
A spelling variant of Cody.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kodey?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,551, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
49 babies in 1995, the peak
Kodey peaked in 1995, when 49 babies were given it (44 boys, #1,937 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 6 | #11,551 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,400 | 5.8 |
| 2015 | 7 | #10,157 | 3.7 |
| 2014 | 5 | #13,170 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,262 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 12 | #6,849 | 6.3 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,430 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 17 | #5,372 | 8.9 |
| 2009 | 17 | #5,445 | 8.6 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,610 | 6.4 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 13 | #6,464 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,678 | 7.3 |
| 2005 | 20 | #4,396 | 10.0 |
| 2004 | 25 | #3,701 | 12.6 |
| 2003 | 32 | #3,025 | 16.2 |
| 2002 | 20 | #4,124 | 10.3 |
| 2001 | 24 | #3,570 | 12.4 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,927 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 25 | #3,235 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 34 | #2,531 | 17.8 |
| 1997 | 24 | #3,110 | 12.7 |
| 1996 | 38 | #2,202 | 20.1 |
| 1995 | 44 | #1,937 | 23.1 |
| 1994 | 36 | #2,235 | 18.6 |
| 1993 | 38 | #2,107 | 19.4 |
| 1992 | 38 | #2,064 | 19.0 |
| 1991 | 32 | #2,263 | 15.8 |
| 1990 | 35 | #2,105 | 17.0 |
| 1989 | 23 | #2,737 | 11.5 |
| 1988 | 14 | #3,615 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,116 | 5.9 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,316 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,946 | 4.3 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,222 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kodey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 695 Americans recorded as Kodey, 2% are girls and 98% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kodey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kodey, and how old are they?
An estimated 675 Americans named Kodey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 22 and 33. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 608 people named Kodey (51 women and girls, 557 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 682 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.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 334,393 babies since 1880, Kodey is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 2,231 babies recorded by SSA was a Kodey (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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kodey
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 Kodey and names like it
- Compare Kodey and CodyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKodey peaked in 1995.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kodey since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Kodey: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Kodey.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kodey alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.