Bodee
Masculine · “awakening”
Bodee is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 762 boys against 5 girls since 1880.
Bodee respells Bodhi, and the Sanskrit bodhi is awakening — the state the Buddha reached under the fig tree at Bodh Gaya.
How old is the name Bodee?
Bodee first appears in US birth records in 1992 — 33 years ago. The typical Bodee is a kid of about 9 — this name's wave is very recent. About 800 people named Bodee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Bodee most popular?
Bodee peaked in 2025, reaching #1942 nationally. Today it ranks #1942, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
Where it comes from
From budh to Bodee
The story of Bodee
Bodhi names the awakening the Buddha attained beneath a pipal tree, and the descendant of that tree still grows at Bodh Gaya. Bodhi entered American given-name use in the 1990s, and the respellings followed. Bodee appears in the American registers in the 2010s and is in current use.
Meaningscholars disagree
awakening, enlightenment
The likeliest route is the Sanskrit bodhi, 'awakening', from budh, 'to wake' or 'to know' — the same root as Buddha, 'the awakened one'. A second route treats Bodee as a respelling of Brody or a coinage on the Bo- front. Neither is documented for this spelling.
How the name formed
- budh
- bodhi
- Bodhi
- Bodee
Related forms: बोधि · Bodhi · Bodie
Pronouncing Bodee
BOH-dee
Two syllables, stress on the first. All the spellings of the sound are said identically.
Nicknames for Bodee
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1992
- Most boys named
- 202579 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1942reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +38.6%79 in 2025, from 57
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Bodee in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- बोधि in Sanskrit — related form
- Bodhi in English — spelling variant
- Bodie in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Utah, Indiana.
Bodees among us
people named Bodee are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 21,621 born in 2025 was named Bodee
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Bodee
- #1942
- Bodee on the 2025 chart
- #550
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Bodee went to 79 boys in 2025, but Bode is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 426, which makes it the 550th most-given boys’ name of the year — 1,392 places above the chart.
- Bode347
- Bodee79
About 1 boy in 4,010 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 21,621 for Bodee itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Hagan test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Bodee's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Hagan climbed just as high around 2009, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Hagan's path sketches the road Bodee is walking now.
Bodee is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Bodee is headed
Bodee looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 28% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Bodee beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Bodee in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The awakening meaning is concrete and about as substantial as meanings get.
- That the Bodh Gaya tree's descendant still grows is a genuinely good fact.
- Bo is available as a short form with a real record.
- Bodhi is the standard spelling and closer to the Sanskrit.
- The descent from the Sanskrit is claimed rather than documented for this spelling.
- At least three spellings of the sound are in circulation.
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Frequently asked
- How many Bodees are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Bodee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Bodee?
- Bodee is one of 2 recorded spellings. Bode is the more common one — 347 births in 2025 against 79 for Bodee.
- How popular is the name Bodee in 2025?
- Bodee ranks #1942 among US boy names in 2025, with 79 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Bodee?
- About 1 in every 21,621 US boys born in 2025 was named Bodee — 79 in all.
- Will my child share the name Bodee with classmates?
- Bodee will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Bodee
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