Jody

Variation or diminutive of Joseph

"Jehovah increases"

Updated Wed Feb 04 2026

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Jody Origin and Meaning

Variation of Joseph

# 980 in the US

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Jody
boy character (with twin sister Buffy) from TV's "Family Affair"
"Jody's Got Your Girl and Gone
" hit 1971 single by R&B star Johnnie Taylor
Jody Silverman
character on Showtime series "Shameless"
Jody Varner
a main character in the 1958 film "The Long, Hot Summer," starring Paul Newman
Jody "Joe" Starks
character in the book "Their Eyes Were Watching God," by Zora Neale Hurston

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