Given name & surname · also French
Jodie
Jodie is a feminine given name from French.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Jodie 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 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jodie through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 31,099
- 3,657 boys · 27,442 girls
- Most popular year
- 1970
- 1,104 babies
- 2025
- 53
- #3,316 for girls · #11,286 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 14% boys.
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 47 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 3,316 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 2.6% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 1,052 in 1970. It also appeared in 6 birth records for boys in 2025. In 2025, Texas had the largest reported state-level birth count for girls with this name (9). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 25,495 as a first name in 2020; 127 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jodie’s family of names
Jodie has a related form in Jody. In English usage, Jodie has a conventional equivalent in the Czech form Jitka. In English usage, Jodie has a related form in Jody in its female senses.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Jodie
- Jodie FosterAmerican actress and filmmaker (born 1962)
- Jodie WhittakerEnglish actress (born 1982)
- Jodie ComerBritish actress (born 1993)
- Jodie SweetinAmerican actress and television personalityborn 1982
- Jodie HenryAustralian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, world champion, former world record-holderborn 1983
- Jodie TaylorEnglish association football player (born 1986)
- Jodie MarshEnglish glamour model and television personality (born 1978)
- Jodie MeeksAmerican basketball player (born 1987)
- Jodie BurrageBritish tennis playerborn 1999
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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