Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Jody” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jody” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Jody” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Jody” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Jody” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Jody” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Jody” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jody” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1910 6 0.000010157 6 -100%
1917 7 0.000003488 7 -100%
1919 11 0.000005213 5 6 -9%
1920 12 0.000005304 7 5 17%
1921 7 0.000002998 7 -100%
1923 12 0.000005212 12 -100%
1924 16 0.000006718 5 11 -38%
1925 20 0.000008572 10 10 0%
1926 18 0.00000784 6 12 -33%
1927 15 0.000006467 15 -100%
1928 20 0.000008846 9 11 -10%
1929 21 0.00000958 7 14 -33%
1930 20 0.000008996 11 9 10%
1931 24 0.000011405 16 8 33%
1932 28 0.000013262 21 7 50%
1933 40 0.000020006 27 13 35%
1934 42 0.000020223 30 12 43%
1935 49 0.000023446 33 16 35%
1936 52 0.000025029 35 17 35%
1937 47 0.000022059 29 18 23%
1938 60 0.000027118 36 24 20%
1939 44 0.000019969 22 22 0%
1940 77 0.000033439 53 24 38%
1941 59 0.000024216 41 18 39%
1942 91 0.000033311 60 31 32%
1943 90 0.000031886 65 25 44%
1944 115 0.00004275 83 32 44%
1945 99 0.000037318 72 27 45%
1946 165 0.000051638 114 51 38%
1947 377 0.000104655 240 137 27%
1948 405 0.000117306 272 133 34%
1949 416 0.000119376 294 122 41%
1950 571 0.000162986 433 138 52%
1951 710 0.000192739 556 154 57%
1952 1046 0.000275408 861 185 65%
1953 1042 0.000270393 852 190 64%
1954 1297 0.000325821 1096 201 69%
1955 1806 0.000449804 1509 297 67%
1956 2041 0.000495023 1749 292 71%
1957 2523 0.000600408 2134 389 69%
1958 2887 0.000698371 2226 661 54%
1959 2757 0.00066306 1860 897 35%
1960 2835 0.000682505 1841 994 30%
1961 2668 0.000644086 1832 836 37%
1962 2373 0.00058805 1780 593 50%
1963 2460 0.000621495 1725 735 40%
1964 2404 0.000618376 1663 741 38%
1965 2246 0.000619509 1570 676 40%
1966 2511 0.000722454 1759 752 40%
1967 2685 0.000790893 1628 1057 21%
1968 3210 0.00095015 1912 1298 19%
1969 3548 0.001020912 1959 1589 10%
1970 3700 0.001025921 2200 1500 19%
1971 3641 0.001060788 1937 1704 6%
1972 3047 0.000969458 1708 1339 12%
1973 2929 0.000970868 1687 1242 15%
1974 2901 0.000954277 1777 1124 23%
1975 2624 0.000869049 1685 939 28%
1976 2561 0.000844017 1565 996 22%
1977 2561 0.000806235 1500 1061 17%
1978 2012 0.000633926 1169 843 16%
1979 1725 0.000518485 994 731 15%
1980 1452 0.000421541 848 604 17%
1981 1237 0.000357579 744 493 20%
1982 1043 0.000297324 677 366 30%
1983 933 0.000269393 602 331 29%
1984 874 0.000250519 552 322 26%
1985 786 0.000220223 491 295 25%
1986 595 0.000167272 324 271 9%
1987 532 0.000147548 283 249 6%
1988 524 0.000141812 272 252 4%
1989 446 0.000116011 227 219 2%
1990 402 0.000101708 188 214 -6%
1991 371 0.000095244 169 202 -9%
1992 300 0.000078099 161 139 7%
1993 282 0.000074796 146 136 4%
1994 266 0.000071551 116 150 -13%
1995 247 0.000067447 121 126 -2%
1996 232 0.000063611 104 128 -10%
1997 189 0.000052127 83 106 -12%
1998 206 0.000056006 96 110 -7%
1999 186 0.000050354 80 106 -14%
2000 147 0.00003889 67 80 -9%
2001 145 0.000038735 53 92 -27%
2002 144 0.00003852 57 87 -21%
2003 144 0.000037872 44 100 -39%
2004 152 0.000039781 49 103 -36%
2005 117 0.00003043 38 79 -35%
2006 122 0.000030838 35 87 -43%
2007 142 0.000035521 40 102 -44%
2008 114 0.000029003 31 83 -46%
2009 108 0.000028271 34 74 -37%
2010 97 0.000026246 23 74 -53%
2011 112 0.00003062 38 74 -32%
2012 86 0.000023514 25 61 -42%
2013 82 0.000022492 23 59 -44%
2014 93 0.000025092 25 68 -46%
2015 75 0.000020265 18 57 -52%
2016 68 0.000018535 20 48 -41%
2017 66 0.000018455 18 48 -45%
2018 72 0.000020478 20 52 -44%
2019 55 0.000015846 21 34 -24%
2020 60 0.000017961 20 40 -33%
2021 69 0.000020366 22 47 -36%
2022 52 0.00001537 15 37 -42%
2023 71 0.000021442 21 50 -41%
2024 67 0.000020129 18 49 -46%

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