Kody
Kody was given to 202 boys in 2025, #1,070 among boys’ names; 24,641 Americans have been recorded with it since 1956 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 23,900 Americans named Kody and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 19 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kody by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kody mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kody is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Modern spelling variant of Cody.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kody?
#1,070 among boys’ names, 2025
Kody fell from #770 in 2015 to #1,070 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.16 to 0.12 per 1,000.
1,200 babies in 1993, the peak
Kody peaked in 1993, when 1,200 babies were given it (1,169 boys, #245 among boys’ names). The 221 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 18% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 202 | #1,070 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 197 | #1,098 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 222 | #994 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 194 | #1,106 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 227 | #979 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 232 | #948 | 0.13 |
| 2019 | 271 | #832 | 0.15 |
| 2018 | 243 | #892 | 0.13 |
| 2017 | 270 | #826 | 0.15 |
| 2016 | 275 | #827 | 0.14 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 310 | #770 | 0.16 |
| 2014 | 331 | #725 | 0.17 |
| 2013 | 324 | #721 | 0.17 |
| 2012 | 341 | #693 | 0.18 |
| 2011 | 372 | #629 | 0.20 |
| 2010 | 385 | #632 | 0.20 |
| 2009 | 434 | #595 | 0.22 |
| 2008 | 443 | #580 | 0.22 |
| 2007 | 507 | #516 | 0.24 |
| 2006 | 525 | #492 | 0.26 |
| 2005 | 527 | #476 | 0.26 |
| 2004 | 638 | #408 | 0.32 |
| 2003 | 625 | #413 | 0.32 |
| 2002 | 665 | #391 | 0.34 |
| 2001 | 721 | #368 | 0.37 |
| 2000 | 783 | #350 | 0.40 |
| 1999 | 732 | #357 | 0.38 |
| 1998 | 811 | #334 | 0.42 |
| 1997 | 987 | #283 | 0.52 |
| 1996 | 1,042 | #270 | 0.55 |
| 1995 | 1,092 | #258 | 0.57 |
| 1994 | 1,163 | #247 | 0.60 |
| 1993 | 1,169 | #245 | 0.60 |
| 1992 | 1,145 | #253 | 0.57 |
| 1991 | 982 | #271 | 0.49 |
| 1990 | 833 | #305 | 0.41 |
| 1989 | 638 | #355 | 0.32 |
| 1988 | 560 | #362 | 0.29 |
| 1987 | 437 | #418 | 0.23 |
| 1986 | 326 | #485 | 0.18 |
| 1985 | 303 | #501 | 0.16 |
| 1984 | 223 | #570 | 0.12 |
| 1983 | 160 | #676 | 0.09 |
| 1982 | 143 | #727 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 105 | #868 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 88 | #960 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 80 | #998 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 91 | #906 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 67 | #1,057 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 57 | #1,135 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 40 | #1,392 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 41 | #1,343 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 36 | #1,420 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 21 | #2,000 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 21 | #2,015 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 21 | #1,962 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 12 | #2,624 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,251 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,882 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,891 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,413 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 14 | #2,262 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,359 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,483 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,241 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,218 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kody a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 24,641 Americans recorded as Kody, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 19 girls and 202 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kody: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kody, and how old are they?
23,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 24,641 Americans ever recorded as Kody. The median Kody alive today is 28 years old; half are between 19 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 19,578 people named Kody (664 women and girls, 18,914 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 22,813 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 30 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 619 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 10,200 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 9,550 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,480 |
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 Kody born?
The states with the most babies named Kody are California, Texas and Florida, with 43% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 25 | #921 | 0.6× |
| Texas | 22 | #1,052 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,166 | 0.8× |
| New York | 11 | #1,087 | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 11 | #824 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #969 | 0.9× |
| Indiana | 7 | #814 | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,212 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,199 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,385 | 0.6× |
Where Kody is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kody is most over-represented in Idaho: since 1956 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 Kody 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 335,217 babies since 1880, Kody is the second most given (7.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 221 of their 2,291 babies (9.6%), 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 Kody
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 Kody and names like it
- Compare Kody and CodyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKody peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kody since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Kody: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Kody.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kody alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.