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Codey vs Codi

American parents have registered 5,598 Codis since 1880, against 3,247 Codeys. Codi is still ahead, with 55 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Codey against Codi, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Codey Codi

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 60 years in which either name was published, Codi for 58 years and Codey for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Codey Codi
Total US births 3,2475,598
Most in one year 230335
Babies in 2025 555
Estimated living today 3,1005,500
Median age today 3131
Peak year 19921992
Best rank 682nd boys1,025th girls
Rank in 2025 12,008th3,459th
First recorded 19721961
Girls / boys 28 / 3,2193,577 / 2,021

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Codey Codi
England and Wales 701508
Scotland 34102
Ireland 921
Northern Ireland 312

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Codey and Codi.