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Koda vs Kodie

American parents have registered 7,573 Kodas since 1880, against 2,745 Kodies. Koda is still ahead, with 858 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Koda against Kodie, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Koda Kodie

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 50 years in which either name was published, Kodie for 28 years and Koda for 22 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Koda Kodie
Total US births 7,5732,745
Most in one year 858117
Babies in 2025 85868
Estimated living today 7,5002,700
Median age today 424
Peak year 20252025
Best rank 410th boys3,028th girls
Rank in 2025 410th3,028th
First recorded 19841974
Girls / boys 654 / 6,9191,382 / 1,363

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 Kodies alive today are over 24; half the Kodas are over 4. That is 20 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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 Koda Kodie
England and Wales 320674
Scotland 1858
Ireland 2619
Northern Ireland 313

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: Koda and Kodie.