Jodi
Feminine · “woman of Judea”
Jodi is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 79,695 girls against 962 boys since 1880. See Jodi as a boy name
Jodi is a short form of Judith, and Judith is a national adjective: the Hebrew means a woman of Judah, which is to say a Jewish woman. Few names describe a whole people quite so directly.
How old is the name Jodi?
Jodi first appears in US birth records in 1940 — 85 years ago. The typical Jodi alive today was born around 1971, making them about 54 years old. About 74,500 people named Jodi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jodi most popular?
Jodi peaked in 1974, reaching #91 nationally. Today it ranks #3975, 3,884 places below that high. See the whole 1974 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Yehudit to Jodi
The story of Jodi
The Book of Judith, in the Greek Old Testament, tells of a widow who saves her city by walking into the enemy camp and beheading its general — a scene painted more often than almost any other biblical subject. The name was used steadily in Europe from the Middle Ages and heavily in English from the Reformation. Judy and Jody are its twentieth-century American clippings, and the -i spelling belongs to the 1960s and 1970s wave, peaking in the mid-1970s.
Meaning
woman of Judea, Jewish woman
From the Hebrew Yehudit, the feminine of Yehudi — a person of the tribe or kingdom of Judah. The tribal name itself is explained in Genesis from a verb meaning to praise. The chain from tribe to region to people to name is fully documented.
How the name formed
- Yehudit
- Judith
- Jody
- Jodi
Related forms: Yehudit · Jutta · Jody · Jodie
Pronouncing Jodi
JOH-dee
Two syllables, stress on the first. Jodi, Jody and Jodie are said identically.
Nicknames for Jodi
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
- 1940
- Most girls named
- 19693,865 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #91reached in 1974
- Change vs 2023
- +2.9%36 in 2025, from 35
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.
Jodi in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Yehudit in Hebrew — related form
- Jutta in German — related form
- Jody in English — spelling variant
- Jodie in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Michigan, Florida.
Jodis among us
people named Jodi are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 44,646 born in 2025 was named Jodi
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jodi
- #3975
- Jodi on the 2025 chart
- #908
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jodi went to 36 girls in 2025, but Jody is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 52, which makes it the 908th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,067 places above the chart.
- Jodi36
- Jody16
About 1 girl in 30,909 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 44,646 for Jodi 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 Maureen test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jodi's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Maureen climbed just as high around 1948, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Maureen's path sketches the road Jodi is walking now.
Jodi 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
Where Jodi is headed
Jodi should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium 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.
Jodi beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jodi in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Judith stands behind it with a documented history reaching back to the Hebrew scriptures.
- Short, bright and impossible to mispronounce in English.
- Jo is available as a further short form and stands alone.
- Three spellings were current at once, so the written form has to be given.
- Jody is also used for boys in American records, so the sound is not a sex marker.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jodis are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 74,500 people named Jodi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jodi?
- Jodi is the most-used spelling in US records — 36 of the 52 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Jody.
- How popular is the name Jodi in 2025?
- Jodi ranks #3975 among US girl names in 2025, with 36 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jodi?
- About 1 in every 44,646 US girls born in 2025 was named Jodi — 36 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jodi with classmates?
- Jodi will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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