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Kodi vs Kodie

American parents have registered 7,281 Kodis since 1880, against 2,745 Kodies. Kodi is still ahead, with 260 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kodi 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

Kodi has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1967 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1997, when Kodi had 135 and Kodie had 101.

Side by side

  Kodi Kodie
Total US births 7,2812,745
Most in one year 354117
Babies in 2025 26068
Estimated living today 7,2002,700
Median age today 1824
Peak year 20232025
Best rank 1,037th girls3,028th girls
Rank in 2025 1,299th3,028th
First recorded 19671974
Girls / boys 3,944 / 3,3371,382 / 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 Kodis are over 18. That is 6 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 Kodi Kodie
England and Wales 886674
Scotland 14158
Ireland 6119
Northern Ireland 2913

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: Kodi and Kodie.