Jodine
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jodine has been given to 515 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 1964, with 36 recorded.
Babies named Jodine, 1981
1 in 692,000
Jodine 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Jodine?
Jodine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1981, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1981
- 1 in 692,000
- 5 of 3,459,130 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 334,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1981
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 479,538 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jodine sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1981 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 479,538 children born in 1981 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jodine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jodines were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jodine was born before 1962 — so the typical Jodine is around 63 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 45.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 71.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 458
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 45.4% of all recorded uses (234).
Is Jodine 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1964 (36)
- Years since peak
- 61
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.2% average annual change
Spellings of Jodine
Jodine is not the most common spelling — Joanne is, with 34.9% against Jodine's 0.08%.
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 Jodine is used
Across 1910–2025, Jodine was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 739,169 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Minnesota1 in —
- 3Wisconsin1 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. Jodine has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jodine around the world
Where Jodine 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 & Wales1997–2000#3,912in 2000
- South Australia1967–1981#452in 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.
Jodine by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jodine
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jodine
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.