Entry № 4969 · English origin

Jodie Jodie — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ JOH-dee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Praised (Jodie Foster, two-time Academy Award winner)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "praised (jodie foster, two-time academy award winner)".

Jodie is the English diminutive of Judith — from the Hebrew Yehudit ("woman of Judea, praised"). Yale graduate (magna cum laude, 1985). DeMille Award same evening.

Subject of countless American film studies.

Praised (Jodie Foster, two-time Academy Award winner) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Jodie
Transliteration
Jodie
Pronunciation
/ ˈdʒoʊ.di /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Jodie stands.

Jodie does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Jodies before her.

Real people
Jodie Foster
American Oscar actress.
born 1962
Jodie Comer
British Emmy actress.
born 1993
In fiction
Jodie
Various American TV.

Names connected to Jodie.

The number behind Jodie.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jodie reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.