Meaning not yet researched.
Bud: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #233 in 1889.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #233 in 1889; #6,870 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Bud in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,870 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1889, at #233.
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Bud: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 boys in 2025. Peak: #233 in 1889 · most boys in one year: 215 (1928).
In 2025, 12 US boys were named Bud, making it the 6,870th most common boys’ name of the year, down 631 places from #6,239 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 14 boys named Bud in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #233, reached in 1889. The most boys given the name in a single year was 215, in 1928. For comparison, it was #8,868 in 2015 and #637 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bud in 139 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 37 babies. In all, 9,502 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,882 babies named Bud.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 100 US boys were named Bud; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 14. In 2025 that was about 1 in 142,340 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Boyd (27,745 babies since 1880) and Bode (4,759 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Bud in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 12 | #6,870 |
| 2024 | — | — | 14 | #6,239 |
| 2023 | — | — | 13 | #6,597 |
| 2022 | — | — | 14 | #6,195 |
| 2021 | — | — | 5 | #12,440 |
| 2020 | — | — | 8 | #8,870 |
| 2018 | — | — | 13 | #6,404 |
| 2017 | — | — | 11 | #7,173 |
| 2016 | — | — | 10 | #7,684 |
| 2015 | — | — | 8 | #8,868 |
| 2014 | — | — | 12 | #6,702 |
| 2013 | — | — | 7 | #9,804 |
| 2011 | — | — | 6 | #11,023 |
| 2010 | — | — | 8 | #8,923 |
| 2007 | — | — | 12 | #6,679 |
| 2006 | — | — | 13 | #6,152 |
| 2003 | — | — | 9 | #7,318 |
| 2001 | — | — | 10 | #6,522 |
| 2000 | — | — | 6 | #9,241 |
| 1999 | — | — | 7 | #7,972 |
| 1998 | — | — | 8 | #6,934 |
| 1997 | — | — | 11 | #5,325 |
| 1996 | — | — | 15 | #4,205 |
| 1995 | — | — | 11 | #5,168 |
| 1994 | — | — | 11 | #5,146 |
| 1993 | — | — | 22 | #3,057 |
| 1992 | — | — | 13 | #4,351 |
| 1991 | — | — | 20 | #3,122 |
| 1990 | — | — | 29 | #2,377 |
| 1989 | — | — | 33 | #2,107 |
| 1988 | — | — | 33 | #1,955 |
| 1987 | — | — | 34 | #1,868 |
| 1986 | — | — | 32 | #1,880 |
| 1985 | — | — | 37 | #1,673 |
| 1984 | — | — | 22 | #2,302 |
| 1983 | — | — | 46 | #1,379 |
| 1982 | — | — | 40 | #1,542 |
| 1981 | — | — | 43 | #1,459 |
| 1980 | — | — | 41 | #1,499 |
| 1979 | — | — | 33 | #1,714 |
| 1978 | — | — | 33 | #1,658 |
| 1977 | — | — | 28 | #1,829 |
| 1976 | — | — | 27 | #1,834 |
| 1975 | — | — | 37 | #1,456 |
| 1974 | — | — | 32 | #1,550 |
| 1973 | — | — | 31 | #1,550 |
| 1972 | — | — | 38 | #1,365 |
| 1971 | — | — | 42 | #1,294 |
| 1970 | — | — | 40 | #1,315 |
| 1969 | — | — | 41 | #1,233 |
| 1968 | — | — | 49 | #1,057 |
| 1967 | — | — | 45 | #1,103 |
| 1966 | — | — | 50 | #1,028 |
| 1965 | — | — | 73 | #859 |
| 1964 | — | — | 63 | #961 |
| 1963 | — | — | 70 | #892 |
| 1962 | — | — | 73 | #891 |
| 1961 | — | — | 94 | #786 |
| 1960 | — | — | 119 | #715 |
| 1959 | — | — | 142 | #646 |
| 1958 | — | — | 113 | #705 |
| 1957 | — | — | 129 | #671 |
| 1956 | — | — | 96 | #749 |
| 1955 | — | — | 121 | #663 |
| 1954 | — | — | 85 | #775 |
| 1953 | — | — | 100 | #714 |
| 1952 | — | — | 99 | #704 |
| 1951 | — | — | 93 | #720 |
| 1950 | — | — | 118 | #637 |
| 1949 | — | — | 127 | #606 |
| 1948 | — | — | 101 | #671 |
| 1947 | — | — | 106 | #669 |
| 1946 | — | — | 104 | #630 |
| 1945 | — | — | 82 | #664 |
| 1944 | — | — | 97 | #623 |
| 1943 | — | — | 88 | #684 |
| 1942 | — | — | 109 | #603 |
| 1941 | — | — | 83 | #673 |
| 1940 | — | — | 96 | #602 |
| 1939 | — | — | 96 | #587 |
| 1938 | — | — | 110 | #553 |
| 1937 | — | — | 130 | #505 |
| 1936 | — | — | 156 | #450 |
| 1935 | — | — | 153 | #458 |
| 1934 | — | — | 162 | #444 |
| 1933 | — | — | 166 | #426 |
| 1932 | — | — | 154 | #461 |
| 1931 | — | — | 208 | #390 |
| 1930 | — | — | 177 | #441 |
| 1929 | — | — | 180 | #440 |
| 1928 | — | — | 215 | #410 |
| 1927 | — | — | 205 | #424 |
| 1926 | — | — | 187 | #441 |
| 1925 | — | — | 176 | #455 |
| 1924 | — | — | 174 | #466 |
| 1923 | — | — | 189 | #443 |
| 1922 | — | — | 179 | #464 |
| 1921 | — | — | 190 | #448 |
| 1920 | — | — | 187 | #444 |
| 1919 | — | — | 169 | #450 |
| 1918 | — | — | 183 | #438 |
| 1917 | — | — | 176 | #428 |
| 1916 | — | — | 153 | #455 |
| 1915 | — | — | 130 | #488 |
| 1914 | — | — | 98 | #493 |
| 1913 | — | — | 89 | #460 |
| 1912 | — | — | 90 | #409 |
| 1911 | — | — | 62 | #349 |
| 1910 | — | — | 52 | #354 |
| 1909 | — | — | 35 | #420 |
| 1908 | — | — | 40 | #360 |
| 1907 | — | — | 31 | #407 |
| 1906 | — | — | 39 | #330 |
| 1905 | — | — | 33 | #361 |
| 1904 | — | — | 36 | #336 |
| 1903 | — | — | 32 | #341 |
| 1902 | — | — | 24 | #415 |
| 1901 | — | — | 30 | #325 |
| 1900 | — | — | 40 | #343 |
| 1899 | — | — | 25 | #362 |
| 1898 | — | — | 36 | #322 |
| 1897 | — | — | 43 | #273 |
| 1896 | — | — | 35 | #316 |
| 1895 | — | — | 33 | #317 |
| 1894 | — | — | 35 | #295 |
| 1893 | — | — | 37 | #286 |
| 1892 | — | — | 39 | #292 |
| 1891 | — | — | 29 | #310 |
| 1890 | — | — | 47 | #246 |
| 1889 | — | — | 48 | #233 |
| 1888 | — | — | 48 | #252 |
| 1887 | — | — | 36 | #270 |
| 1886 | — | — | 33 | #298 |
| 1885 | — | — | 44 | #248 |
| 1884 | — | — | 42 | #264 |
| 1883 | — | — | 42 | #254 |
| 1882 | — | — | 33 | #300 |
| 1881 | — | — | 38 | #257 |
| 1880 | — | — | 37 | #277 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).