Nameling

Kodah

Gender
Boy
Say it
KO-da
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#2,832 for boys

Kodah is a boys' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 2,832nd for boys in the US (44 babies).

What does Kodah mean?

Modern: spelling of Koda; modern name, sometimes treated as a short form of Dakota

Koda is the bear cub in Disney's Brother Bear (2003); it is also treated as a short form of Dakota.

Meaning borrowed from Koda. More on Wiktionary.

Is Kodah a girl's or a boy's name?

Kodah is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls and 44 boys in the US.

How popular is Kodah in the US?

Rank in 2025
#2,832among boys
Babies in 2025
44about 1 in 39,000 boys
Five-year trend
Steadyup 9% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 44 boys in the US were named Kodah, making it the 2,832nd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,200th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 59 boys. It first appears in the records in 2003. 5 girls were also named Kodah in 2025 (14,937th for girls).

Half of all the boys named Kodah in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 845 boys in the US were given Kodah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #392, up from #2,832 for this spelling alone.

2003Busiest: 59 in 20172025
Kodah in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202544#2,832
202433#3,453
202345#2,804
202238#3,149
202137#3,179
202035#3,200
201947#2,693
201830#3,603
201759#2,239
201629#3,680
201523#4,293
201412#6,627
201312#6,598
201210#7,553
201110#7,495
20107#9,686
20099#8,305
20086#11,030
20079#8,169
20067#9,579
20050–
20049#7,530
20035#10,886

Names like Kodah

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Kodah

More Modern names

Every Modern name

Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Kodah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kodah, updated 20 October 2026.