Jodie
Masculine · “Hebrew Yehudah”
Jodie is given to both — 3,657 boys and 27,442 girls since 1880. See Jodie as a girl nameSee other names given to both
The -ie ending was male first. Nineteenth-century American boys were Charlie, Willie, Freddie, Bennie and Jodie without anyone thinking twice, and the ending only became a female signal in the twentieth century.
How old is the name Jodie?
Jodie was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Jodie alive today was born around 1952, making them about 73 years old. About 1,900 people named Jodie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jodie most popular?
Jodie peaked in 1893, reaching #479 nationally. Today it ranks #10695, 10,216 places below that high. See the whole 1893 chart.
Where it comes from
From Yehudah to Jodie
The story of Jodie
Sex-marking by suffix is not fixed and can be watched changing. In the 1880s and 1890s the -ie and -y endings were freely male: Willie, Charlie, Johnnie, Bennie, Eddie, Jodie and Frankie all appear in the boys' records in numbers, and the same names were also being given to girls. Through the twentieth century the ending drifted, first becoming ambiguous, then reading as female, and by the 1970s a boy registered as Jodie would be assumed to be a girl. The drift is one-directional, like most sex-marking changes in names, and it happened to the whole set at once rather than name by name, which is a sign that the ending itself was carrying the signal rather than any individual name.
Meaningscholars disagree
Hebrew Yehudah, praised
Jodie is a familiar form of names beginning with Jo-, chiefly Joseph, Joel and Jude, all ultimately from Hebrew. As a male name it belongs to the nineteenth-century American habit of registering diminutives; the male peak is 1893.
How the name formed
- Yehudah
- Joseph
- Jodie
Related forms: Jody · Jodi
Pronouncing Jodie
JOH-dee
Two syllables, stress on the first. Jody, Jodi and Jodie are homophones; only the ending's sex signal has changed over time.
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
- 1880
- Most boys named
- 196964 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #479reached in 1893
- Change vs 2021
- −40.0%6 in 2025, from 10
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
- Jody in English — spelling variant
- Jodi in English — spelling variant
Jodies among us
people named Jodie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 284,679 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
Fashion outlook
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
Jodie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jodie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Joseph and Jude are both available as formal versions.
- Two syllables, easy to say and to spell.
- Jo works as a short form for either sex.
- The name now reads as female to almost every American.
- Its male use ended in the early twentieth century.
- Three spellings compete.
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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 1,900 people named Jodie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jodie in 2025?
- Jodie ranks #10695 among US boy names in 2025, with 6 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jodie?
- About 1 in every 284,679 US boys born in 2025 was named Jodie — 6 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jodie with classmates?
- Jodie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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