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Kodee vs Kodi

American parents have registered 7,281 Kodis since 1880, against 691 Kodees. Kodi is still ahead, with 260 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kodee against Kodi, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kodee Kodi

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

Kodi has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1967 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2004, when Kodee had 26 and Kodi had 116.

Side by side

  Kodee Kodi
Total US births 6917,281
Most in one year 29354
Babies in 2025 5260
Estimated living today 6807,200
Median age today 2118
Peak year 20072023
Best rank 7,733rd girls1,037th girls
Rank in 2025 14,942nd1,299th
First recorded 19881967
Girls / boys 380 / 3113,944 / 3,337

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 Kodees alive today are over 21; half the Kodis are over 18. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Kodee Kodi
England and Wales 5886

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: Kodee and Kodi.