The story in the numbers

290,917 boys have been named Cody in the United States since 1884, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1992, with 19,875 births — 1.00% of all boys recorded that year.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 219 → 289).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1993, and the 1990s alone account for 50%. It has spent 78 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 24 of them in the top 100.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 5,146 girls have also been given it, 1.7% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

By decade

Decade

boys named Cody

156

193

199

274

709

1,693

9,525

60,287

146,484

48,883

16,906

5,568

In 1992, its biggest year

Cody was the 24th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1992 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Andrew. See all of 1992.

Names that rose and fell with Cody

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.