Jody
Jody is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 18 births. Its best rank was 153rd, in 1970.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 180.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19582,226 births
- Best rank
- #153in 1970
- Since 1919
- 87,349people given the name
The story in the numbers
55,829 girls have been named Jody in the United States since 1919, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1958, with 2,226 births — 0.11% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 18 births in 2024, against 2,226 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1967, and the 1960s alone account for 32%. It has spent 49 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Jody is used for both sexes: 36% of its bearers are boys (31,520), most of them born around 1971.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Jody | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | |
| 1920s | 44 | |
| 1930s | 260 | |
| 1940s | 1,294 | |
| 1950s | 13,276 | |
| 1960s | 17,669 | |
| 1970s | 16,222 | |
| 1980s | 5,020 | |
| 1990s | 1,264 | |
| 2000s | 448 | |
| 2010s | 231 | |
| 2020s | 96 |
In 1958, its biggest year
Jody was the 170th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1958 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Patricia. See all of 1958.
Names that rose and fell with Jody
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Danitapeak 1961
- Kandypeak 1965
- Juliepeak 1958
- Candypeak 1970
- Beckipeak 1961
- Jillpeak 1966
- Treasapeak 1967
- Dannettepeak 1965
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.