Jodie
Feminine · “woman of Judea”
Jodie is given to both — 27,442 girls and 3,657 boys since 1880. See Jodie as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Jodie is Judith at two removes with the warmest of the three American endings. Judith is a national adjective: the Hebrew means a woman of Judah, which is to say a Jewish woman.
How old is the name Jodie?
Jodie first appears in US birth records in 1882 — 143 years ago. The typical Jodie alive today was born around 1973, making them about 52 years old. About 25,000 people named Jodie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jodie most popular?
Jodie peaked in 1974, reaching #249 nationally. Today it ranks #3296, 3,047 places below that high. See the whole 1974 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Yehudit to Jodie
The story of Jodie
The Book of Judith tells of a widow who saves her besieged city by walking into the enemy camp and killing 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 after the Reformation. Judy and Jody are its American clippings, and the -ie 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. Genesis explains the tribal name 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
- Jodie
Related forms: Yehudit · Jutta · Jodi · Jody
Pronouncing Jodie
JOH-dee
Two syllables, stress on the first. Jodie, Jodi and Jody are said identically.
Nicknames for Jodie
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
- 1882
- Most girls named
- 19701,052 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #249reached in 1974
- Change vs 2022
- +9.3%47 in 2025, from 43
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.
Jodie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Yehudit in Hebrew — related form
- Jutta in German — related form
- Jodi in English — spelling variant
- Jody in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, New York.
Jodies among us
people named Jodie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 34,197 born in 2025 was named Jodie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Arline test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jodie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Arline climbed just as high around 1936, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Arline's path sketches the road Jodie is walking now.
Jodie 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 Jodie is headed
Jodie 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.
Jodie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jodie 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 into the Hebrew scriptures.
- The -ie ending reads warmer than -i or -y without changing the sound.
- Short, bright and impossible to mispronounce.
- Three spellings were in use 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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Feminine · #3296 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Jodies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 25,000 people named Jodie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jodie in 2025?
- Jodie ranks #3296 among US girl names in 2025, with 47 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jodie?
- About 1 in every 34,197 US girls born in 2025 was named Jodie — 47 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jodie with classmates?
- Jodie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Jodie
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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