Gender-neutral · #3036 in 2025

Jody

Jody: popularity and trends since 1880

Rank
#3036
Born 2025
40
Peak year
1971

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 boys born

Jody per 100,000 boys born, by year. Peak: 1971. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Recent trend

Jody has held steady: its share of boys born has barely moved over the last 10 years. It now stands at 2% of its 1971 peak.

Boy or girl?

Over the last 10 years, 30% of children named Jody were recorded as girls and 70% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.

Sounds good with

Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.