girls:
3.6k births since 1967
#2886 (50th percentile)
boys:
3.2k births since 1974
#2228 (51st percentile)
overall:
6.7k births since 1967
#3277 (58th percentile)
The name Kodi is the #3,277 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,724 recorded births since 1967. This represents the 57.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 57.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,886 (49.5% percentile) for all time with 3,572 births since 1967. For boys, it ranks #2,228 (51.4% percentile) for all time with 3,152 births since 1974.
Kodi first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1967 (1967 for girls and 1974 for boys). Birth data for Kodi is available in 54 out of the 57 years between 1967 and 2023 (54 years for girls and 48 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 Kodi is truly gender-neutral, with nearly equal distribution between boys and girls. In 2023, 70.5% of babies named Kodi were girls.
For girls, Kodi reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 24.9% percentile (ranked #711) with 139 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 139 births per million (ranked 24.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2007, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Kodi is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #711 (24.9% percentile) with 139 births per million.
For boys, Kodi reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 14.6% percentile (ranked #657) with 57 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 74 births per million (ranked 14.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Kodi ranks #814 for boys (10.7% percentile) with 56 births per million, which is 75.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kodi".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kodi is pronounced as KOH-dee, which has 2 syllables.
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