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Jodeci vs Jodine

American parents have registered 875 Jodecis since 1880, against 515 Jodines. Jodeci is still ahead, with 19 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jodeci against Jodine, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jodeci Jodine

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 70 years in which either name was published, Jodine for 37 years and Jodeci for 33 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Jodeci Jodine
Total US births 875515
Most in one year 17136
Babies in 2025 19under 5
Estimated living today 860430
Median age today 2662
Peak year 19921964
Best rank 1,135th boys1,975th girls
Rank in 2025 7,194thunranked
First recorded 19911937
Girls / boys 420 / 455515 / 0

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Jodines alive today are over 62; half the Jodecis are over 26. That is 36 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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