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Bodie

#275 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Bodhi

Bodie has been given to 8,704 babies in the U.S. since 1920. In 2025 it ranked #275 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 1,249 recorded.

Babies named Bodie, 2025

1 in 2,650

Bodie over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05001K1.5K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bodie: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Bodhi

surname transfer

What Bodie means

Bodie is a variant of Bodhi.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Bodie → Bodhi. The family’s meaning is “Enlightenment in Buddhism”, recorded in the naming reference for Bodhi.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

* As a Scottish surname, variant of Body, Boddy, Boddie. * As a French surname, variant of Bodi, see Beaudin.

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Bodie is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Bodie is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bodhi, Body and Bodi.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,595 boys were recorded with the name Bodie between 1920 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 1,249 in 2025; its best national rank was #275 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #612 in 2020 to #275 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #958 in 2015 to #275 in 2025.

In the United States, 109 girls were recorded with the name Bodie between 2015 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2025; its best national rank was #6,159 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,484 in 2020 to #6,159 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #16,880 in 2015 to #6,159 in 2025.

How common is Bodie?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 2,650
1,249 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 1,370
0.07% of boys
Rank, 2025
#275
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
1,841 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bodie 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 301%
Grade of 1004%
School of 50017%

Put another way: gather 1,841 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bodie. In a class of 30 the chance is 1%.

When Bodies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bodie was born before 2020 — so the typical Bodie is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
54.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
8,584
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 54.8% of all recorded uses (4,710).

Is Bodie 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
+71
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+337
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+683
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
5.81×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (1,249)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#275
2025

Spellings of Bodie

Bodie is not the most common spelling — Eddie is, with 52.2% against Bodie's 2.1%.

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 Bodie is used

Across 2016–2025, Bodie was most concentrated in Montana — about 1 in 709 boys, against 1 in 2,699 across all states with data. It was least common in New Mexico (1 in 7,143).

14141 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Montana1 in 709
  2. 2North Dakota1 in 741
  3. 3South Dakota1 in 990
  4. 4Idaho1 in 1,010
  5. 5Maine1 in 1,064
  6. 6Iowa1 in 1,190
  7. 7Utah1 in 1,220
  8. 8Nebraska1 in 1,333

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.

Geographically, Bodie is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 58% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Bodie around the world

Where Bodie 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
    1997–2025
    #438
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2018–2023
    #482
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    2021–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #503
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1979–2013
    #499
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Bodie

People whose public names include Bodie, 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.

Bodie by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#275
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 337
Best rank ever
#275
2025
Peak year
2025
1,249 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,595
Count in 2025
1,249

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,159
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,325
Best rank ever
#6,159
2025
Peak year
2025
19 that year
First recorded
2015
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
109
Count in 2025
19

Names similar to Bodie

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

BodhiBodenBodeAudieJodieBrodieBodeeCodieBodeyBodiKodieOdieBodinTeddieEddieIndieWoodieBodynFreddieLaddieAndieAddieBuddieClaudie

Names with a curve like Bodie

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

ZyaireBaylorDarielColsonKohenSuttonShilohBriggsJazielKodaAresShepherd

Sibling names for Bodie

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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