girls:
79.6k births since 1940
#435 (92nd percentile)
boys:
949 births since 1953
#3642 (21st percentile)
overall:
80.6k births since 1940
#796 (90th percentile)
The name Jodi is the #796 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 80,561 recorded births since 1940. This represents the 89.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #435 (92.4% percentile) for all time with 79,612 births since 1940. For boys, it ranks #3,642 (20.5% percentile) for all time with 949 births since 1953.
Jodi first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1940 (1940 for girls and 1953 for boys).
The name Jodi has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Jodi reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 88.2% percentile (ranked #89) with 2,111 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 2,285 births per million (ranked 87.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Jodi ranks #917 for girls (3.2% percentile) with 20 births per million, which is 0.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Jodi reached its peak popularity in 1973, achieving the 6.5% percentile (ranked #602) with 29 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 29 births per million (ranked 6.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jodi".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Jodi. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Jodi is pronounced as JOH-dee, which has 2 syllables.
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