Codie
Masculine · “Irish "descendant of Cuidightheach”
Codie is given to both — 2,600 boys and 1,872 girls since 1880. See Codie as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Buffalo Bill invented how the world pictures the American West. His Wild West show toured Europe from 1887, played for Queen Victoria, and ran for thirty years — so the cowboys, the war bonnets and the stagecoach chase are a theatrical production's image, not a historical one.
How old is the name Codie?
Codie first appears in US birth records in 1916 — 109 years ago. The typical Codie alive today was born around 1994, making them about 31 years old. About 2,500 people named Codie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Codie most popular?
Codie peaked in 1991, reaching #702 nationally. Today it ranks #7679, 6,977 places below that high. See the whole 1991 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Ó Cuidighthigh to Codie
The story of Codie
Buffalo Bill's Wild West opened in 1883 and was touring Europe within four years. It presented a fixed repertoire — a buffalo hunt, an attack on the Deadwood stage, Custer's Last Stand — with genuine participants including Sitting Bull for one season and Annie Oakley for many. Audiences in London, Paris, Rome and Barcelona took it as documentary. The show's imagery went into European and American popular culture, into dime novels and then into film, and it is the direct ancestor of the western as a genre. The West it depicted was already over. Cody as a given name rose from the 1950s with the western's screen dominance; the Codie spelling peaks in 1991.
Meaningscholars disagree
Irish "descendant of Cuidightheach" — a helpful one
Cody is from Ó Cuidighthigh, a descendant of Cuidightheach, from a word meaning helpful or a helper. The derivation is reasonably well supported but not certain. Codie is an American respelling; by the usual convention the -ie spelling reads as feminine, though it is used for both sexes. The name's American career is downstream of William F. Cody.
How the name formed
- Ó Cuidighthigh
- Cody
- Codie
Related forms: Cody · Kody
Pronouncing Codie
KOH-dee
Two syllables, stress on the first. Cody, Codie and Kody are pronounced identically; the spellings differ only on the page.
Nicknames for Codie
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
- 1916
- Most boys named
- 1993211 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #702reached in 1991
- Change vs 2024
- +11.1%10 in 2025, from 9
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.
Codie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Cody in English — spelling variant
- Kody in English — spelling variant
Codies among us
people named Codie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 170,808 born in 2025 was named Codie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Codie
- #7679
- Codie on the 2025 chart
- #904
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Codie went to 10 boys in 2025, but Kodie is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 24, which makes it the 904th most-given boys’ name of the year — 6,775 places above the chart.
- Kodie14
- Codie10
About 1 boy in 71,170 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 170,808 for Codie 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 Dwaine test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Codie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Dwaine climbed just as high around 1951, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Dwaine's path sketches the road Codie is walking now.
Codie 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
Codie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Codie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It is short, phonetic and impossible to mispronounce.
- The Irish surname behind it has a documented meaning.
- It works for either sex without adjustment.
- Cody is the standard spelling and will be substituted.
- The -ie spelling reads as feminine to many Americans.
- The early-1990s peak dates a bearer fairly clearly.
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Masculine · #7679 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Codies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,500 people named Codie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Codie?
- Codie is one of 2 recorded spellings. Kodie is the more common one — 14 births in 2025 against 10 for Codie.
- How popular is the name Codie in 2025?
- Codie ranks #7679 among US boy names in 2025, with 10 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Codie?
- About 1 in every 170,808 US boys born in 2025 was named Codie — 10 in all.
- Will my child share the name Codie with classmates?
- Codie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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