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Bode

#748 in 2025Boys' name

Messenger

Bode has been given to 4,759 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #748 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 347 recorded.

Babies named Bode, 2025

1 in 9,550

Bode over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bode: meaning, origin, and history

Messenger

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bode means

Bode means “messenger”, associated with bode.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

* As a Dutch and German surname, from bode (“messenger”). * As a German and Danish surname, from the name Bodo, derived from Old Saxon bodo (“messenger”), related to above. * As a Dutch and German surname, from Bude (“booth, small house”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Bode (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Bode is used in English.

Bode comes through Old Saxon bodo.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,759 boys were recorded with the name Bode between 1998 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 347 in 2025; its best national rank was #748 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #821 in 2020 to #748 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #850 in 2015 to #748 in 2025.

How common is Bode?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 9,550
347 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 4,920
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#748
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,623 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bode sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 1001%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,623 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bode. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bodes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bode was born before 2016 — so the typical Bode is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
45.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,759
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 45.1% of all recorded uses (2,147).

Is Bode rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+58
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+73
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+102
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.31×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (347)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
44.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#748
2025

Spellings of Bode

Bode is not the most common spelling — Jose is, with 23.9% against Bode's 0.19%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Bode is used

Across 2016–2025, Bode was most concentrated in Maine — about 1 in 775 boys, against 1 in 6,946 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 50,000).

2129 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maine1 in 775
  2. 2New Hampshire1 in 1,471
  3. 3Colorado1 in 1,695
  4. 4Minnesota1 in 1,724
  5. 5Utah1 in 2,083
  6. 6North Dakota1 in 2,128
  7. 7Iowa1 in 2,500
  8. 8Washington1 in 3,125

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Bode around the world

Where Bode ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2005–2025
    #1,798
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #1,232
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1997–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Bode

People whose public names include Bode, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Bode by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#748
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 73
Best rank ever
#748
2025
Peak year
2025
347 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,759
Count in 2025
347

Names similar to Bode

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Bode

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Bode, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

JesiahKylenKooperYadielIshaanAyanYahyaThatcherYaelZyonBenicioAdler

Sibling names for Bode

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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