first name
KODY
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 19,578 people named Kody, 80.5% reported their origin as White, 5% as two or more races and 4.9% as Black. 96.6% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Kody peaked in 1993, when 1,200 babies got the name.
At least 24,641 babies have been given the name since 1956. 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.
Kody by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #554. The largest share of babies named Kody, 43.4%, 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 Kody is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kody has been most common in Utah (3.5×), Idaho (3.5×), and Hawaii (3.1×), and least common in New Jersey (0.18×).
21,591 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 Kody
Spelled almost the same
5 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Kody, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Kody ranks #107,024 of 156,621, with 177 people. See Kody as a last name
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