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Jodi

#3,975 in the US in 2025

Where Jodi stands

United States register · 1880–2025

#3,975girls’ names · US 2025

Jodi was the 3,975th most registered girls' name in the United States in 2025, on 36 births.

peak 1970 · 4,186188019532025

Its moment was 1970, when 4,186 babies were given it.

SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

#3,975US rank, 2025 (girls)
36US births in 2025
#91its best US rank, in 1974
1970peak year — 4,186 births
79,695US births since 1940
754NZ births since 1967
4E&W births, 2019–2025
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How Jodi's figures are worked out

  1. Counts come straight from the registrars: the US Social Security Administration (1880–2025) and the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (1900–2025). Nothing is scraped from another names site. The SSA files are the agency's own, retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified.
  2. Ranks are computed against every name in that year's file, not just the ones this site publishes pages for — otherwise a rank would flatter every name we happen to list.
  3. The curve is drawn on births per 100,000 of that sex, not raw counts. Raw counts across eras are misleading: far more births were registered in 1957 than in 1890, so a flat count is a falling share.
  4. The reporting floor. Each registrar publishes a name only once it clears a threshold — 5 births of that sex in the US, 10 in New Zealand. Expressed as a share that threshold is itself a curve, and it is drawn on every chart here as the shaded band along the base.
  5. A missing year is a suppressed value, never a zero. Where the registrar published nothing, this site prints “below floor” or “<5”, the curve is broken rather than drawn across the gap, and the missing years are marked on the floor line. Jodi was under the floor in no year of its US record.
share per 100,000 = births ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000
reporting floor (share) = 5 ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000

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Jodi in the United States

188019001920194019601980200020200.0120239
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 5-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Jodi in the United States, 1880–2025

Between 2016 and 2025 the name has been steady.

SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Jodi in New Zealand

In New Zealand, Jodi has been registered 754 times since 1967, peaking in 1976 with 56 births. It did not clear the DIA's 10-birth reporting floor in 2025.

1900192019401960198020002020NOT PUBLISHED — BELOW THE 10-BIRTH FLOOR0.0137274
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 10-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Jodi in New Zealand, 1900–2025

SOURCE·NZ Department of Internal Affairs, births by first name·CC BY 4.0. DIA lists a name only if it was given to at least 10 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Jodi in England & Wales

In England and Wales, Jodi was registered 4 times between 2019 and 2025, peaking in 2019 with 4 births. It did not clear the ONS reporting floor of 3 in 2025.

2020NOT PUBLISHED — BELOW THE 3-BIRTH FLOOR0.00.71.4
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 3-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Jodi in England and Wales, 2019–2025

Seven years is a window, not a history. Unlike the American and New Zealand series this one cannot show you a name's arrival or its long decline — ONS publishes the full list only from 2019. England and Wales only: Scotland and Northern Ireland publish separately and are not counted here.

SOURCE·Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales·Open Government Licence v3.0. ONS redacts any name given to 2 or fewer babies of that sex that year, under s40 of the Freedom of Information Act.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Decade by decade in the US

US rank and births at each decade markSSA · JUL 2026
YearRankBirths
1940#3,5037
1950#1,07673
1960#2131,561
1970#954,186
1980#1671,700
1990#474518
2000#1,176170
2010#3,07554
2020#3,45044

<5 = the SSA published no figure for that year. It is a suppressed value, not a zero.

Where in the United States

The states that registered Jodi most often since 1940. These are lifetime totals, so they track state population as much as local taste — a name common in Wyoming will never out-count California.

StateBirths
New York6,356
Ohio6,200
Pennsylvania5,578
California5,103
Michigan5,044
Illinois4,354
Minnesota4,294
Wisconsin4,244
Iowa2,653
Texas2,250

Questions about Jodi

How popular is the name Jodi?

Jodi ranked #3,975 for girls in the United States in 2025, on 36 births registered with the Social Security Administration.

When was Jodi most popular?

Jodi peaked in 1970, when 4,186 babies in the United States were given the name.

Is Jodi rising or falling?

Measured as a share of all girls' births, Jodi has been steady between 2016 and 2025.

Same sex, peaking within a few years of 1970, at a comparable scale. Not a taste engine — this is arithmetic on peak years, which is why it will occasionally hand you something unfashionable that is nonetheless exactly of the period.

SOURCE·US SSA (1880–2025) + NZ DIA (1900–2025) birth registrations·ranks and shares computed from the source files, see method·REVIEWED JUL 2026

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