Is Jody a male or female name?
Jody is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 64% and male usage in Ireland at 64%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- female
- Probability
- 64%
- Sample size
- 90,534
- Confidence
- high
Jody by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | female | 64% | 87,347 | ssa |
| England and Wales GB | female | 64% | 1,332 | ons |
| France FR | female | 71% | 910 | insee |
| Canada CA | female | 62% | 645 | statcan |
| Ireland IE | male | 64% | 200 | cso |
| Switzerland CH | female | 52% | 79 | bfs |
| Poland PL | female | 64% | 11 | pesel |
| Austria AT | female | 60% | 10 | statat |
Attested in 13 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AT · AU · BE · CA · CH · FR · GB · IE · IN · NL · PL · SE · US
Jody over time
In the United States, 31.2% of the babies named Jody in the 1920s were girls, against 30.1% in the 2020s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born. In France, 57.5% of the babies named Jody in the 1980s were girls, against 81.8% in the 2010s.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 31% | 141 | — | |
| 1930s | 64% | 406 | — | |
| 1940s | 68% | 1,894 | — | |
| 1950s | 80% | 16,678 | — | |
| 1960s | 66% | 26,941 | — | |
| 1970s | 59% | 27,702 | — | |
| 1980s | 60% | 8,424 | 58% | 200 |
| 1990s | 47% | 2,681 | 75% | 305 |
| 2000s | 34% | 1,334 | 76% | 185 |
| 2010s | 29% | 803 | 82% | 110 |
| 2020s | 30% | 319 | — |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Jody with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Jody&country=US" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Jody
Is Jody a male or female name?
Jody is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 64% and male usage in Ireland at 64%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Jody change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Jody identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.