Cody: Meaning of Baby Name Cody

Cody Popularity Snapshot

Across the entire US Social Security Administration record (1880–2024), 5,146 baby girls have been named Cody. The name peaked in 1988 with 253 US births that year (rank #741). In 2024, ranked #4903 nationally — 4,162 places below its 1988 peak.

Top States for Cody

Based on 1910–2024 US SSA state-level records, the three states with the most Cody births are: California (417), Texas (348), Illinois (108).

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4-Letter Names Starting with C

Names with Cody's exact length and starting letter: Cabe, Cace, Cade, Cadi, Cady.

Quick Facts About Cody

5,642

English baby names in our dictionary

2,251

English female names

75

4-letter C-names in our dictionary

721

C-female names total

1982–2025

years of US SSA records (44 total)

274,919

total US births named Cody (all years)

US Popularity History (1982–2025)

↘️ Falling: Cody dropped 21 places in the US boys ranking over the last 5 years (#297 in 2020 → #318 in 2025).

Annual US births named Cody by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 1992 with 19,875 boys named Cody (boy rank #24 that year).

Where it stands today: in 2025, ranked #318 for boys (1,076 US births). That's 294 places below its 1992 peak.

Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.

Where in the US Is Cody Most Popular?

Average boy-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's boys-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Cody the strongest states are Wyoming, Montana, Alaska.

Strongest boys-name states

#	State	Avg rank	Births
1	Wyoming	#98	16
2	Montana	#152	52
3	Alaska	#159	19
4	New Hampshire	#165	49
5	Rhode Island	#184	30
6	Hawaii	#199	54
7	South Dakota	#208	32
8	Maine	#218	17
9	Massachusetts	#220	283
10	Connecticut	#227	141

Weakest boys-name states

#	State	Avg rank	Births
1	Georgia	#379	268
2	Indiana	#376	183
3	Mississippi	#373	78
4	South Carolina	#372	100
5	Tennessee	#368	201
6	Nevada	#358	79
7	Louisiana	#344	146
8	North Carolina	#343	293
9	Texas	#341	966
10	Wisconsin	#337	170

Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Cody in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.

Variant Forms

Name	Meaning	Gender	Origin
Kody	"Assistant, A Cushion, Possessions."	Male	Celtic

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