Jodell vs Jodene
American parents have registered 957 Jodenes since 1880, against 813 Jodells. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Jodell Jodene
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 54 years in which either name was published, Jodene for 30 years and Jodell for 24 years. The lead changed hands 19 times.
- 1930–1945 Jodell ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1946–1974 Jodene ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1977–1979 Jodell ahead
15 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Jodell | Jodene | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 813 | 957 |
| Most in one year | 42 | 51 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 650 | 800 |
| Median age today | 65 | 62 |
| Peak year | 1956 | 1966 |
| Best rank | 1,637th girls | 1,568th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1930 | 1937 |
| Girls / boys | 813 / 0 | 957 / 0 |
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 Jodells alive today are over 65; half the Jodenes are over 62. 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.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jodell and Jodene.