Recorded 1910–2025 · United States
Jody was most popular in 1970, when 3,700 American babies were given the name — ranking #195 that year. In 2025 it ranked #5,203, with 56 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 87,407 people named Jody.
Jody first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1910, which makes it about 115 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 108 of the 116 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 87,407 American births named Jody between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 77,002 are estimated to be alive today.
56 American babies were named Jody in 2025, ranking #5,203 that year.
Jody is falling. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 63 births a year, against 90 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of -30% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Jody is a unisex name — 63.9% of the 87,407 Americans given it were girls and 36.1% were boys. It changed hands: since 1994 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that. In births since 2016 it is 30% girls and 70% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 77,002 Americans named Jody are alive today — 88% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 56 years old, and half are between 50 and 64.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org