How rare is the name Jodie?

25,495 people in the United States have the first name Jodie, about 1 in 11,847. It ranks #1,386 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

JODIE

#1,386

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
25,495
About
1 in 11,847
This common or more
74.3%
Who bears it

Of the 25,495 people named Jodie, 86.6% reported their origin as White, 3.6% as Black and 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino. 93.7% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Jodie peaked in 1970, when 1,104 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1970
Births that year
1,104
In 2025*
53 ▼95%
Recorded as
mostly female

At least 31,099 babies have been given the name since 1880. 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.

Jodie by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #508. The largest share of babies named Jodie, 46.4%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1880s#1,27499
1890s#1,082198
1900s#1,322196
1910s#1,568498
1920s#1,786589
1930s#1,855489
1940s#1,671721
1950s#9293,109
1960s#6197,485
1970s#5089,481
1980s#8754,477
1990s#1,6962,008
2000s#3,398973
2010s#5,664499
2020s#5,928277
Before 19011%
Greatest Generation 1901–273.7%
Silent Generation 1928–453%
Baby boom 1946–6421.5%
Generation X 1965–8046.4%
Millennials 1981–9617.3%
Generation Z 1997–125%
2013 and later2%

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 Jodie is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jodie has been most common in Utah (2.3×), Hawaii (2×), and Wisconsin (1.8×), and least common in New Mexico (0.41×).

24,423 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.

Spelled almost the same

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

Also a last name

As a last name, Jodie ranks #136,807 of 156,621, with 127 people. See Jodie as a last name

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