Cody comes from an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of both Irish Gaelic Ó Cuidighthigh meaning ‘descendant of the helpful one’ and Mac Óda meaning ‘son of Odo’.
Cody is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Cody isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Cody ranks 246. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 8 were named Cody. In the entire USA, approximately 288,628 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Cody. That is 0.09 % of all living Americans.
Cody comes from an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of both Irish Gaelic Ó Cuidighthigh meaning ‘descendant of the helpful one’ and Mac Óda meaning ‘son of Odo’.
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This was a real surprise! Cody is a name that has been around for a long time, but only really took off at the end of the 20th century. According to our SmartGenius statistics, it reached its highest rank at #24 in the year 1993, when 19,332 parents chose this name for their newborn son. This made Cody much more popular than in previous generations, where it was so rare for several years that it was not even recorded in the statistics. Now, this boys' name seems to have found its place and has established itself in the beginning of the 21st century as well.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Cody was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Cody ranked 290 in our SmartGenius statistics. In absolute figures, this means it was given to newborn boys a total of 1,130 times. No one knows what names (or combinations of numbers and letters) will be popular 50 years from now, but given its consistent popularity, there is a good chance that Cody will remain a universally popular name.
There are only 386 different male names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Cody is one of them. However, Cody is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Wyoming seem to particularly fancy this name – the 1,195 men called Cody who live here are 0,494% of all male residents and push their name up to #46 in our SmartGenius statistics, easily placing it in the top 100 most common male names in Wyoming. If you look at all the states in the USA together, you can currently find as many as 288,628 people with the name Cody. Across all regions and age groups, this lands Cody on position 118 in our SmartGenius ranking of the top male names – of course, the current popularity as a baby name for newborns looks somewhat different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for boys’ names. This is because 5.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.
With four letters, the name Cody is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 5.2% of all boys' names that begin with a C, this first letter is thus much more common than the average of all letters. And which boys’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Charles.
If your name is Cody and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Cody, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Cody sounds like this:
