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/).
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.
Cody's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
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).
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#2047 Chung19
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#2048 Clément19
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#2049 Cody19
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#2050 Cristiano19
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#2051 Dagobert19