girls:
840 births since 1965
#4876 (15th percentile)
boys:
23.4k births since 1956
#750 (84th percentile)
overall:
24.2k births since 1956
#1634 (79th percentile)
The name Kody is the #1,634 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 24,195 recorded births since 1956. This represents the 78.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 78.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #750 (83.7% percentile) for all time with 23,355 births since 1956. For girls, it ranks #4,876 (14.7% percentile) for all time with 840 births since 1965.
Kody first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1956 (1956 for boys and 1965 for girls). Birth data for Kody is available in 64 out of the 68 years between 1956 and 2023 (64 years for boys and 51 years for girls). 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 Kody has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.5% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 92.1% of babies named Kody were boys.
For boys, Kody reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 68.9% percentile (ranked #240) with 566 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 571 births per million (ranked 68.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1996, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Kody ranks #697 for boys (23.5% percentile) with 120 births per million, which is 21.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Kody reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 3.4% percentile (ranked #820) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 18 births per million (ranked 3.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Kody ranks #933 for girls (1.5% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 61.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kody".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kody is pronounced as KOH-dee, which has 2 syllables.
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