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Kodiak vs Kodie

American parents have registered 2,745 Kodies since 1880, against 791 Kodiaks. Kodie is still ahead, with 68 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kodiak against Kodie, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kodiak Kodie

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

Kodie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1974 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2022, when Kodiak had 38 and Kodie had 40.

Side by side

  Kodiak Kodie
Total US births 7912,745
Most in one year 40117
Babies in 2025 2868
Estimated living today 7802,700
Median age today 1324
Peak year 20192025
Best rank 2,993rd boys3,028th girls
Rank in 2025 3,848th3,028th
First recorded 19881974
Girls / boys 0 / 7911,382 / 1,363

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 Kodies alive today are over 24; half the Kodiaks are over 13. That is 11 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: Kodiak and Kodie.