Fun Facts About the Name Khodi
- 168 babies named Khodi: U.S. records list 168 babies given the name Khodi from 1880 through 2025. Even 73 boys received the name Khodi.
What Does the Name Khodi Mean?
Khodi is a rare given name with no single documented etymology. Its sound and spelling place it near the English name Cody and its respellings Kodi and Kody. Cody comes from an Irish surname, Ó Cuidighthigh, "descendant of Cuidightheach," a byname usually translated as "helpful." If Khodi is a respelling of that name, its meaning would follow from it. A separate word, Persian and Urdu khudi (خودی), means "self" or "one's own" and is central to Sufi ideas of selfhood and to the poetry of Muhammad Iqbal; the Kurdish form Xodî is linked to the word for God, Xweda. Those words are not established as the source of the given name, so reading "self" or "God" into Khodi is symbolic interpretation rather than etymology.
Khodi Name History & Origins
As a written name, Khodi is one of several spellings used for the sound shared by Cody, Kodi, and Kody, so its development is tied to theirs. The surname behind Cody has two separate Gaelic sources in Ireland: Ó Cuidighthigh, from the byname Cuidightheach ("helpful"), and the unrelated Mac Óda. Irish emigration to Britain and North America spread the surname, and like many surnames it was later taken up as a first name. The respellings Kodi and Kody followed as the sound was adapted to new written forms. The same "kh" spelling appears in transliterations from Persian, Urdu, and Kurdish, where this sound is written that way, so a family using Khodi may be drawing on a different naming tradition altogether. The spelling alone does not show which path a particular Khodi comes from.
How Popular is the Name Khodi?
Khodi has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2017. Its best rank was #8,089 in 2017.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #12,569 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2024 | #11,621 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2023 | #14,317 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2022 | #10,811 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2021 | #9,953 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2020 | #9,246 | 11 | 0.0007% |
| 2019 | #14,731 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2018 | #16,952 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2017 | #8,089 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2016 | #15,328 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2015 | #17,874 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2014 | #12,531 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #10,230 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2024 | #9,437 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2023 | #13,279 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2022 | #8,670 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2021 | #11,497 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2020 | #8,425 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2019 | #8,568 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2018 | #11,530 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2017 | #9,319 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2014 | #11,487 | 6 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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