Bodey
#2,840 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Bodey has been given to 642 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #2,840 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 44 recorded.
Babies named Bodey, 2025
1 in 75,300
Bodey over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Bodey?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 75,300
- 44 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 38,800
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #2,840
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 52,226 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Bodey sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 52,226 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bodey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Bodeys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Bodey was born before 2014 — so the typical Bodey is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 39.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 94.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 642
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 39.9% of all recorded uses (256).
Is Bodey 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
- +1,247
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +984
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +318
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.22×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (44)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.8% average annual change
Spellings of Bodey
Bodey is not the most common spelling — Bobby is, with 23.4% against Bodey's 0.05%.
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 Bodey is used
Across 1910–2025, Bodey was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,382,085 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Ohio1 in —
- 3Texas1 in —
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. Bodey has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Bodey around the world
Where Bodey 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 & Wales2021–2021#3,990in 2021
- South Australia1999–2012#771in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Bodey by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Bodey
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Bodey
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.