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Kodee vs Kodie

American parents have registered 2,745 Kodies since 1880, against 691 Kodees. Kodie is still ahead, with 68 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kodee 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

Kodie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1974 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2011, when Kodee had 22 and Kodie had 43.

Side by side

  Kodee Kodie
Total US births 6912,745
Most in one year 29117
Babies in 2025 568
Estimated living today 6802,700
Median age today 2124
Peak year 20072025
Best rank 7,733rd girls3,028th girls
Rank in 2025 14,942nd3,028th
First recorded 19881974
Girls / boys 380 / 3111,382 / 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 Kodees are over 21. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Kodee Kodie
England and Wales 5674

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: Kodee and Kodie.