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Jodene

Girls' name

Elaboration of Jody

Jodene has been given to 957 babies in the U.S. since 1937. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1966, with 51 recorded.

Babies named Jodene, 1989

1 in 768,000

Jodene over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jodene: meaning, origin, and history

Elaboration of Jody

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jodene means

Jodene is a elaboration of Jody.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Jodene is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈd͡ʒoʊ.din/ for Jodene.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Jodene → Jody → Judy → Judith. The family’s meaning is “woman from Judea, Jewess”, recorded in English with the source elements Y'hudít.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jody.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 957 girls were recorded with the name Jodene between 1937 and 1989. Its highest annual count was 51 in 1966; its best national rank was #1,577 in 1966.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jodene?

Jodene had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1989, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1989
1 in 768,000
5 of 3,842,268 births
Among girls only
1 in 368,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1989
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
532,653 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jodene sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1989 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 532,653 children born in 1989 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jodene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jodenes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jodene was born before 1962 — so the typical Jodene is around 63 today.

Median birth year
1962
About 63 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
41.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
38.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
863
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 41.3% of all recorded uses (395).

Is Jodene 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1966 (51)
Years since peak
59
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,577
1966

Spellings of Jodene

Jodene is not the most common spelling — Joanne is, with 55.2% against Jodene's 0.25%.

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 Jodene is used

Across 1910–2025, Jodene was most concentrated in Nebraska — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 195,762 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Nebraska1 in 33,333
  2. 2Wisconsin1 in 50,000
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 100,000
  4. 4South Dakota1 in 100,000
  5. 5California1 in —
  6. 6Colorado1 in —
  7. 7Iowa1 in —
  8. 8Illinois1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Jodene has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jodene around the world

Where Jodene 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
    2002–2002
    #4,137
    in 2002
  • South Australia
    1978–1981
    #616
    in 1981

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.

Jodene by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,577
1966
Peak year
1966
51 that year
First recorded
1937
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
957
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jodene

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

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Sibling names for Jodene

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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