Jodie
Jodie reached its high-water mark in 1970 at number 277, and has been recorded 31,099 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 3,296th. About 26,000 Jodies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 52.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Jodie
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Jodie crossed from boys to girls in 1946, and has stayed there for 80 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 100% girls, and in 2025 it was 89%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 119 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 31,099
- Estimated living today
- 26,000
- Median age today
- 52
- Peak year
- 1970
- Best rank
- 277th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,296th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 27,442 / 3,657
How old the living Jodies are
born that year still alive today
Of the 31,099 babies given the name since 1880, about 26,000 are alive — 85 in every hundred. Roughly 890 of them are children and 3,400 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1973 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Jodies
- Jodie Foster (born 1962)American actress and filmmaker
- Jodie Whittaker (born 1982)English actress
- Jodie Comer (born 1993)English actress
- Jodie Sweetin (born 1982)American actress and television personality
- Jodie Henry (born 1983)Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, world champion, former world record-holder
- Jodie Taylor (born 1986)English association football player
- Jodie Marsh (born 1978)English glamour model and television personality
- Jodie Meeks (born 1987)American basketball player
People named Jodie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jodie is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jodie is most concentrated in Utah (2.3×), Hawaii (2.0×), Wisconsin (1.8×), Iowa (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1970
The most popular girls’ names the year Jodie peaked:
Jodie elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Jodie | 9,365 | 43rd |
| Scotland girls | Jodie | 2,720 | 44th |
| France girls | Jodie | 2,020 | 385th |
| Ireland girls | Jodie | 1,238 | 61st |
| Northern Ireland girls | Jodie | 618 | 32nd |
| New Zealand girls | Jodie | 359 | 77th |
| Belgium girls | Jodie | 282 | 257th |
| Switzerland girls | Jodie | 60 | 735th |
| Scotland boys | Jodie | 12 | 231st |
| Ireland boys | Jodie | 3 | 324th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Jodie: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Jodie | 12 | 0.001% | 1,160th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Jodie | 31 | 0.007% | 336th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Jodie | 17 | 0.026% | 120th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Jodie: rank by region
In 2008, Jodie was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Jodie | 444 | 6 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Jodie among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Jodie | 8 | 11 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Jodie against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.