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Codey

#12,406 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Codey has been given to 3,247 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #12,406 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1992, with 230 recorded.

Babies named Codey, 2025

1 in 663,000

Codey over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Codey: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Codey means

Codey is a given name.

The naming story behind Codey

Wikidata records Codey as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q98651401, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,219 boys were recorded with the name Codey between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 230 in 1992; its best national rank was #680 in 1992.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #12,403 in 2020 to #12,406 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,052 in 2015 to #12,406 in 2025.

In the United States, 28 girls were recorded with the name Codey between 1987 and 1995. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1987; its best national rank was #10,090 in 1987.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Codey?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,406
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Codey 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 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Codey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Codeys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Codey was born before 1994 — so the typical Codey is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
55.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
22.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,219
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 55.4% of all recorded uses (1,782).

Is Codey 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
−3,253
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,354
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.36×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.2%
Peak was 1992 (230)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#680
1992

Spellings of Codey

Codey is not the most common spelling — Cody is, with 19.0% against Codey's 0.21%.

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 Codey is used

Across 1910–2025, Codey was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 90,377 across all states with data. It was least common in Mississippi (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Indiana1 in 33,333
  2. 2Ohio1 in 33,333
  3. 3Florida1 in 50,000
  4. 4Kentucky1 in 50,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 50,000
  6. 6Missouri1 in 50,000
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 50,000
  8. 8Wisconsin1 in 50,000

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. Codey has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Codey around the world

Where Codey 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
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2005–2014
    #587
    in 2014
  • Northern Ireland
    2012–2012
    #403
    in 2012
  • Ireland
    2006–2012
    #718
    in 2012
  • Canada
    1991–2007
    #2,479
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    1979–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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

Codey by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,406
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3
Best rank ever
#680
1992
Peak year
1992
230 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,219
Count in 2025
5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,090
1987
Peak year
1987
6 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
1995
All-time count
28
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Codey

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

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Names with a curve like Codey

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

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Sibling names for Codey

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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