How rare is the name Jodi?

71,748 people in the United States have the first name Jodi, about 1 in 4,210. It ranks #715 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

JODI

#715

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
71,748
About
1 in 4,210
This common or more
64.8%
Who bears it

Of the 71,748 people named Jodi, 92.3% reported their origin as White, 2.3% as two or more races and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino. 99% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Jodi peaked in 1970, when 4,228 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19402025
Peak year
1970
Births that year
4,228
In 2025*
43 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 80,657 babies have been given the name since 1940. 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.

Jodi by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #196. The largest share of babies named Jodi, 61.3%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1940s#3,359203
1950s#7015,332
1960s#26827,100
1970s#19630,682
1980s#44211,726
1990s#1,1943,470
2000s#2,8081,275
2010s#5,080579
2020s#5,760290
Silent Generation 1928–450.1%
Baby boom 1946–6419.2%
Generation X 1965–8061.3%
Millennials 1981–9615.8%
Generation Z 1997–122.7%
2013 and later0.8%

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 Jodi is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jodi has been most common in North Dakota (3.5×), Minnesota (3×), and Wisconsin (2.7×), and least common in Mississippi (0.24×).

77,173 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 Jodi

#713 Payton · 71,786#714 Mathew · 71,761#716 Lucia · 71,628#717 Herbert · 71,489

Spelled almost the same

4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Jodi, most common first.

#706 Jody · 72,569#1,386 Jodie · 25,495#26,023 Jode · 361#34,922 Joda · 232

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