Jodi
About 80,657 American babies have been named Jodi since 1940, most of them around 1970. In 2025 it ranked 3,975th. About 74,000 Jodis are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 53.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Jodi boys named Jodi
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 80,657
- Estimated living today
- 74,000
- Median age today
- 53
- Peak year
- 1970
- Best rank
- 95th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,975th
- First recorded
- 1940
- Girls / boys
- 79,695 / 962
How old the living Jodis are
born that year still alive today
Of the 80,657 babies given the name since 1940, about 74,000 are alive — 92 in every hundred. Roughly 1,000 of them are children and 5,800 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1972 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Jodis
- Jodi Benson (born 1961)American actress
- Jodi Picoult (born 1966)American author
- Jodi Lyn O'Keefe (born 1978)American actress and model
- Jodi Balfour (born 1987)South African actresses
- Jodi Rell (1946–2024)American politician
- Jodi Long (born 1954)American actress
- Jodi Kantor (born 1975)American journalist
- Jodi Gordon (born 1985)Australian actress
People named Jodi with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jodi is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jodi is most concentrated in North Dakota (3.5×), Minnesota (3.0×), South Dakota (2.7×), Wisconsin (2.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1970
The most popular girls’ names the year Jodi peaked:
Jodi elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Jodi | 826 | 362nd |
| Scotland girls | Jodi | 606 | 105th |
| Ireland girls | Jodi | 181 | 257th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Jodi | 90 | 169th |
| New Zealand girls | Jodi | 56 | 97th |
| England and Wales boys | Jodi | 45 | 1,799th |
| France boys | Jodi | 5 | 3,804th |
| France girls | Jodi | 5 | 5,690th |
| Scotland boys | Jodi | 3 | 315th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Jodi against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.