Teddy
Teddy is ranked 898th among boys in 2024 (262 births). Its best rank was 239th, in 1933.
- Rank in 2024
- #898up 98 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2620.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 1949613 births
- Best rank
- #239in 1933
- Since 1890
- 35,040people given the name
The story in the numbers
33,321 boys have been named Teddy in the United States since 1890, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1949, with 613 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1955, and the 1950s alone account for 16%. It has spent 99 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,719 girls have also been given it, 4.9% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Teddy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 18 | |
| 1900s | 159 | |
| 1910s | 1,174 | |
| 1920s | 2,967 | |
| 1930s | 4,385 | |
| 1940s | 5,145 | |
| 1950s | 5,416 | |
| 1960s | 5,280 | |
| 1970s | 3,009 | |
| 1980s | 1,950 | |
| 1990s | 1,211 | |
| 2000s | 779 | |
| 2010s | 829 | |
| 2020s | 999 |
In 1949, its biggest year
Teddy was the 264th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1949 were James, Robert, John, William and Michael. See all of 1949.
Names that rose and fell with Teddy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jamepeak 1957
- Bennypeak 1948
- Kennethpeak 1957
- Curtisspeak 1959
- Richardpeak 1946
- Jeromepeak 1954
- Theodispeak 1955
- Darrelpeak 1960
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.