Given name & surname · also French
Jodi
Jodi is a feminine given name from French.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Jodi comes from French, and ultimately from Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1940. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jodi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 80,657
- 962 boys · 79,695 girls
- Most popular year
- 1970
- 4,228 babies
- 2025
- 43
- #4,029 for girls · #10,154 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −3%
- Steady
Boys, girls and both
The balance of boys and girls given this name has shifted over time. Recent births are 12% boys.
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 36 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 4,029 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 2.4% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 4,186 in 1970. It also appeared in 7 birth records for boys in 2025. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 71,748 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jodi’s family of names
In English usage, Jodi has a related form in Jody. In English usage, Jodi has a conventional equivalent in the Czech form Jitka. In English usage, Jodi has a related form in Jody in its female senses.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Jodi
- Jodi BensonAmerican actressborn 1961
- Jodi Lyn O'KeefeAmerican actress and modelborn 1978
- Jodi PicoultAmerican authorborn 1966
- Jodi BalfourSouth African actressesborn 1987
- Jodi LongAmerican actressborn 1954
- Jodi KantorAmerican journalistborn 1975
- Jodi GordonAustralian actressborn 1985
- Jodi Ann PatersonAmerican actress and modelborn 1975
- Jodi-Ann RobinsonSoccer player (born 1989)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Appears in
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