Jodey
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jodey has been given to 143 babies in the U.S. since 1959. 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 1976, with 13 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 65% boys, 35% girls all-time.
Babies named Jodey, 2012
1 in 523,000
Jodey 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Jodey over time
In 2012, Jodey went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Jodey?
Jodey had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2012
- 1 in 523,000
- 7 of 3,657,590 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 271,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2012
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 362,179 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jodey sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 362,179 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jodey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jodeys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jodey was born before 1974 — so the typical Jodey is around 51 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 62.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 7.5%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 93
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 62.4% of all recorded uses (58).
Is Jodey 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1976 (13)
- Years since peak
- 49
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 42.8% average annual change
Spellings of Jodey
Jodey is not the most common spelling — Jose is, with 24.6% against Jodey's <0.01%.
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.
Jodey around the world
Where Jodey 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.
- South Australia1970–1972#479in 1972
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Jodey by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Jodey
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jodey
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.