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Bodee vs Bodi

American parents have registered 1,028 Bodis since 1880, against 767 Bodees. Bodi is still ahead, with 127 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Bodee against Bodi, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Bodee Bodi

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 32 years in which either name was published, Bodee for 16 years and Bodi for 16 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Bodee Bodi
Total US births 7671,028
Most in one year 79127
Babies in 2025 79127
Estimated living today 7601,000
Median age today 96
Peak year 20252025
Best rank 1,942nd boys1,421st boys
Rank in 2025 1,942nd1,421st
First recorded 19921993
Girls / boys 5 / 7620 / 1,028

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Bodees alive today are over 9; half the Bodis are over 6. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Bodee Bodi
England and Wales 3105

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Bodee and Bodi.