Kodiak
#3,904 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kodiak has been given to 791 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #3,904 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 40 recorded.
Babies named Kodiak, 2025
1 in 118,000
Kodiak 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kodiak?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 118,000
- 28 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 61,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,904
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 82,069 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kodiak sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 82,069 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kodiak. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kodiaks were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kodiak was born before 2012 — so the typical Kodiak is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 30.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 75.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 791
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 30.8% of all recorded uses (244).
Is Kodiak 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
- −51
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −34
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,727
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.75×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 70.0%
- Peak was 2019 (40)
- Years since peak
- 6
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.6% average annual change
Spellings of Kodiak
Kodiak is not the most common spelling — Koda is, with 53.5% against Kodiak's 6.1%.
Where Kodiak is used
Across 1910–2025, Kodiak was most concentrated in Washington — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 223,018 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Washington1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in —
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. Kodiak has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kodiak around the world
Where Kodiak 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.
- Canada1996–2000#1,577in 2000
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Kodiak by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kodiak
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kodiak
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.