Codi
Masculine
Codi is given to both — 2,021 boys and 3,577 girls since 1880. See Codi as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Codi trims Cody to the bare -i ending, and the underlying name has a genuine Irish etymology that almost nobody associates with it. Ó Cuidighthigh means descendant of the helpful one — from a word for help or assistance — which is a good deal gentler than the frontier association the name now carries.
How old is the name Codi?
Codi first appears in US birth records in 1978 — 47 years ago. The typical Codi alive today was born around 1994, making them about 31 years old. About 2,000 people named Codi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Codi most popular?
Codi peaked in 1993, reaching #853 nationally. Today it ranks #7194, 6,341 places below that high. See the whole 1993 chart.
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Where it comes from
From cuidightheach to Codi
The story of Codi
The surname reached America with Irish emigration and became internationally famous through William Cody, whose Wild West show toured Europe and America from 1883 and made the name a shorthand for the frontier. It became a large American boys' name in the 1980s and 1990s. Respellings followed: Kody, Codey, Codie, Codi. The bare -i ending is the one that reads as most modern and also as most unisex, and Codi appears in both columns, peaking for boys in 1993.
Meaningscholars disagree
Irish "descendant of the helpful one"
Cody is generally from Ó Cuidighthigh, from cuidightheach, helpful or assisting. A second derivation takes it from Ó Cuidighthigh's variant Mac Óda, son of Odo. Both are Irish and both are plausible; the helpful reading is the more commonly cited. The -i spelling has no separate origin.
How the name formed
- cuidightheach
- Ó Cuidighthigh
- Cody
- Codi
Related forms: Ó Cuidighthigh · Cody
Pronouncing Codi
KOH-dee
Two syllables with the stress on the first and a long O. Cody, Codi, Codie, Kody and Coty are identical aloud. The Irish original is closer to KWIJ-ee-hee, so the anglicization has moved a long way.
Nicknames for Codi
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
- 1978
- Most boys named
- 1993154 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #853reached in 1993
- Change vs 2024
- −26.7%11 in 2025, from 15
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.
Codi in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ó Cuidighthigh in Irish — same name
- Cody in English — spelling variant
Codis among us
people named Codi are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 155,280 born in 2025 was named Codi
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Codi
- #7194
- Codi on the 2025 chart
- #254
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Codi went to 11 boys in 2025, but Cody, Kody and Kodi and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 5 spellings went to 1,385, which makes it the 254th most-given boys’ name of the year — 6,940 places above the chart.
About 1 boy in 1,233 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 155,280 for Codi 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 Corry test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Codi's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Corry climbed just as high around 1977, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Corry's path sketches the road Codi is walking now.
Codi sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Codi beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Codi in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The Irish etymology is genuinely appealing — the helpful one.
- It is short, four letters, and impossible to mispronounce.
- The -i ending makes it work for both sexes.
- Cody is far more common and will be written instead.
- The -i ending reads as female to some Americans.
- The 1993 peak dates it to a specific decade.
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Masculine · #7194 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Codis are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,000 people named Codi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Codi?
- Codi is one of 5 recorded spellings. Cody is the more common one — 1,076 births in 2025 against 11 for Codi.
- How popular is the name Codi in 2025?
- Codi ranks #7194 among US boy names in 2025, with 11 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Codi?
- About 1 in every 155,280 US boys born in 2025 was named Codi — 11 in all.
- Will my child share the name Codi with classmates?
- Codi will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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