Kody

#51 in New Mexico

Meaning of Kody

Kody drifts into the naming landscape like a cobalt crane over a mist-silvered rice paddy—concise, self-possessed, yet heavy with quiet promise—its roots in the Gaelic Ó Cuidighthigh (“descendant of the helpful one”) long ago carried from Munster’s emerald folds to the dust-shimmer of the American frontier, where the spelling shed an old coat and picked up the buckaroo swagger of Cody; this slimmer variant, however, moves with the poise of shodō ink, renewing the familiar the way a sumi-e brush reinterprets a mountain already seen. In U.S. records his flight first appears in the late 1950s, rises to an unobtrusive peak during the synth-bright mid-1980s, and now rides the easy thermals of the 700-range—proof that steady names age like denim, quietly useful and never in need of social-media fanfare. Spoken—KOH-dee—the two syllables break crisp as a bamboo stalk and leave the cool echo of distant spurs, conjuring campfire horizons, laconic heroes, and the understated reliability of the one who comes precisely when help is required.

Pronunciation

American English

  • Pronunced as KOH-dee (/ˈkoʊdi/)

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