Kodi
Feminine · “From an Irish surname”
Kodi is given to both — 3,944 girls and 3,337 boys since 1880. See Kodi as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Kodi is the streamlined spelling of Cody, an Irish surname that became an American first name and has been on the US charts since the late 1960s. Two beats, an open O in the middle, and a bright -i ending that puts it in company with Remi and Lexi. It has been quietly gaining ground rather than arriving all at once.
How old is the name Kodi?
Kodi first appears in US birth records in 1967 — 58 years ago. The typical Kodi alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 3,900 people named Kodi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kodi most popular?
Kodi peaked in 2023, reaching #1037 nationally. Today it ranks #1299, 262 places below that high. See the whole 2023 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Ó Cuidighthigh / Mac Óda to Kodi
The story of Kodi
The root is a family name from Ireland, anglicized into Cody as Irish names were rendered into English spelling. In the United States it followed the usual American path: a surname first, then a first name, helped along by its association with the frontier West. Once Cody was established, the respellings followed — Kody, Codi, Kodie, Kodi — with the K and the -i ending steering the name toward girls while Cody and Kody stayed mostly with boys. Kodi has been on US records since the late 1960s and has kept a modest, gradual presence ever since.
Meaningscholars disagree
From an Irish surname; either "helpful one" or "descendant of Óda"
Kodi inherits its meaning from Cody, which anglicizes more than one Irish surname. Ó Cuidighthigh derives from cuidightheach, "helper, helpful one". Mac Óda points instead to the personal name Óda, a Norse-Germanic name related to Otto. Both readings are taken seriously, and a given name spelled Kodi carries whichever you prefer.
How the name formed
- Ó Cuidighthigh / Mac Óda
- Cody
- Kody
- Kodi
Related forms: Ó Cuidighthigh · Cody · Kody · Codi · Kodie · Coady
Pronouncing Kodi
KOH-dee
Stress on the first syllable, long O. The pronunciation is identical to Cody and Kody, so it is understood on first hearing almost anywhere in the English-speaking world.
Nicknames for Kodi
High
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
- 1967
- Most girls named
- 2023244 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1037reached in 2023
- Change vs 2024
- −13.6%171 in 2025, from 198
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.
Kodi in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ó Cuidighthigh in Irish — related form
- Cody in English — spelling variant
- Kody in English — spelling variant
- Codi in English — spelling variant
- Kodie in English — spelling variant
- Coady in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Kodis among us
people named Kodi are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 9,399 born in 2025 was named Kodi
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kodi
- #1299
- Kodi on the 2025 chart
- #702
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kodi went to 171 girls in 2025, but Codi, Cody and Kody and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 5 spellings went to 263, which makes it the 702nd most-given girls’ name of the year — 597 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 6,111 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 9,399 for Kodi 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 Yessica test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kodi's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Yessica climbed just as high around 1995, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Yessica's path sketches the road Kodi is walking now.
Kodi is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Kodi is headed
Kodi looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 29% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
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.
Kodi beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kodi in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The sound is already familiar everywhere Cody is known, so it never needs explaining out loud — only spelling.
- Two syllables, first-syllable stress, no awkward consonant clusters; it works with most surnames and calls easily across a playground.
- Also serves as a short form for Dakota, which gives a longer formal option to families who want one.
- Sits in a large, well-worn family of spellings — Cody, Kody, Codi, Kodie — so records and relatives adapt to it quickly.
- The spelling will need saying aloud for life. With Cody, Kody, Codi and Kodie all in circulation, forms and teachers will guess wrong often enough to be a small standing chore.
- Cody and Kody are recorded overwhelmingly for boys in the US, so a girl named Kodi may be assumed male on paperwork before anyone meets her. Most families find the K-and-i spelling settles that quickly in person.
- Kodi is also the name of a widely used open-source media player, which puts software results ahead of the name in a plain web search.
- It is rare enough that being the only Kodi in a class is the likely outcome — an advantage or a drawback depending on which you would rather your child have.
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Feminine · #1299 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Kodis are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,900 people named Kodi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kodi?
- Kodi is the most-used spelling in US records — 171 of the 263 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Codi, Cody, Kody and Khodi.
- How popular is the name Kodi in 2025?
- Kodi ranks #1299 among US girl names in 2025, with 171 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kodi?
- About 1 in every 9,399 US girls born in 2025 was named Kodi — 171 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kodi with classmates?
- Kodi will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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