Cody

At the 2020 census, 18,338 Americans bore the surname Cody — 1,922nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 16,300.

By the numbers

People: 18,338
Rank: 1,922nd
How common: 1 in 16,300
Per 100,000: 6.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Cody described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 73.9%
Black, not Hispanic 15.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Cody

Diablo Cody (born 1978)American screenwriter and author
Lew Cody (1884–1934)American actor
John Cody (1907–1982)Catholic cardinal
Bill Cody (1891–1948)American actor

People named Cody with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Cody

Coddington

Also a first name

Cody has been given to 297,177 American babies as a first name since 1884, peaking in 1992. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.