girls:
27.4k births since 1882
#860 (85th percentile)
boys:
3.7k births since 1880
#2053 (55th percentile)
overall:
31k births since 1880
#1443 (81st percentile)
The name Jodie is the #1,443 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 31,007 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 81.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 81.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #860 (85.0% percentile) for all time with 27,356 births since 1882. For boys, it ranks #2,053 (55.2% percentile) for all time with 3,651 births since 1880.
Jodie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1882 for girls). Birth data for Jodie is available in 143 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (141 years for girls and 139 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Jodie has been given predominantly to girls, with 88.2% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 81.4% of babies named Jodie were girls. Interestingly, until around 1882, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1880 to 1881), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (88.2% girls from 1882 to 2023).
For girls, Jodie reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 67.9% percentile (ranked #240) with 656 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 656 births per million (ranked 67.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Jodie ranks #917 for girls (3.2% percentile) with 20 births per million, which is 3.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Jodie reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 9.9% percentile (ranked #482) with 53 births per million. The name was most common in 1893, with 124 births per million (ranked 4.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Jodie ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 3.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jodie".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Jodie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Jodie is pronounced as JOH-dee, which has 2 syllables.
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