Boy · Irish surname
Cody
Say it: KOH-dee
Meaning
From an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of Mac Óda 'son of Óda' (from a Norman name Odo); it is strongly associated with William 'Buffalo Bill' Cody.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
A rare first name until it surged in the 1980s and 1990s.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1990s
In the United States
- 291,449 babies given this name since 1884
- At its height in 1992, about 1 in 100 boys
- 1,148 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Codey, Kody
Famous bearers
- Buffalo Bill Cody, American frontiersman and showman
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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