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Kodah vs Kodie

American parents have registered 2,745 Kodies since 1880, against 551 Kodahs. Kodie is still ahead, with 68 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kodah against Kodie, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kodah 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 49 years and Kodah for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Kodah Kodie
Total US births 5512,745
Most in one year 65117
Babies in 2025 4968
Estimated living today 5502,700
Median age today 624
Peak year 20172025
Best rank 2,240th boys3,028th girls
Rank in 2025 2,833rd3,028th
First recorded 20031974
Girls / boys 35 / 5161,382 / 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 Kodahs are over 6. That is 18 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 Kodah Kodie
England and Wales 4674

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: Kodah and Kodie.