first name
CODY
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 248,588 people named Cody, 87.2% reported their origin as White, 4.2% as two or more races and 4.1% as Hispanic or Latino. 98.4% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Cody peaked in 1992, when 20,079 babies got the name.
At least 297,177 babies have been given the name since 1884. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Cody by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #43. The largest share of babies named Cody, 60.9%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Cody is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Cody has been most common in Wyoming (3.1×), Idaho (2.6×), and Alaska (2.4×), and least common in District of Columbia (0.06×).
292,032 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Cody
Spelled almost the same
6 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Cody, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Cody ranks #1,922 of 156,621, with 18,338 people. See Cody as a last name
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