Jodie is the English diminutive of Judith — from the Hebrew Yehudit ("woman of Judea, praised"). A top-100 US baby name from 1968 to 1981, peaking at #71 in 1971. Jodie Foster (born Alicia Christian Foster, 1962) — *American actress and director; two Academy Awards for Best Actress, for The Accused (1988) at age 26 and The Silence of the Lambs (1991) at 29 — making her among the youngest two-time Best Actress winners in Oscar history. Started acting at age 3 in commercials; her breakout role as 12-year-old Iris in Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976) earned her first Oscar nomination. Yale graduate (magna cum laude, 1985). Came out publicly in 2013 at the Golden Globes; won Cecil B. DeMille Award same evening. Directed Money Monster (2016) and Netflix's True Detective: Night Country (2024). Jodie Comer (born 1993) — British actress; Emmy for Killing Eve* (2019).
Subject of countless American film studies.
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.
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.