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Cody

Cody means "Helpful" and comes from Irish, giving it real etymological depth as a boy's name. It belongs mostly to the 1990s at this point. These days, it is familiar to most people. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.

IrishHelpful
IrishDescendant of Comhdhach
Births by decade
1900s
11
1910s
156
1920s
198
1930s
204
1940s
312
1950s
807
1960s
1,860
1970s
10,215
1980s
62,197
1990s
147,914
2000s
49,257
2010s
14,561
Peaked in the 1990s · 287,692 total U.S. births since 1900