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Cody

A Celtic name for a "helpful one". In Poland it stays rare: most people here have never met a Cody, and the name goes almost entirely to boys.

Cody Pronunciation

Cody is pronounced TSO-dih (/ˈt͡sɔdɨ/).

Alive in 2025
50
Newborns 2025
<2
National rank
#5330

What Cody means

Where Cody comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Cody began as an Irish surname, Ó Cuidighthigh, which named the descendants of a man called Cuidightheach. That Gaelic word means the helpful one. So the Celtic root already holds the sense a modern reader finds on a baby-name list: helpful one, in Polish opiekuńczy potomek.

The surname crossed into English use and later became a given name, worn most often by boys. Buffalo Bill fixed it in the popular memory. William Frederick Cody toured Europe with his Wild West show through the 1880s, and the name traveled with the posters and the billing.

Cody stayed plain. It has no standard diminutive and no separate feminine form in the records. What goes on a school register is what you read back.

A child named Cody in Poland brings a Gaelic word for helper into a Kraków classroom, spelled as it was in Ireland.

How many people are named Cody

1 in 464048 men in Poland is named Cody. 50 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5330 among male names.

People with the name Cody 2019 → 2025
50 +25 since 2019
2020 28 +3
2021 30 +2
2022 34 +4
2023 37 +3
2024 43 +6
2025 50 +7

Cody's popularity over time

Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.

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<2 newborns with the name Cody in 2025
below the publication floor that year

Cody as a middle name

Cody is a first name for 50 men in Poland and a middle name for another 19, a 72/28 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2049th, between Clément (19) and Cristiano (19).

As a first name
50
As a middle name
19
first name 72% middle name 28%

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