Meaning not yet researched.
Buddy: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 23 in 2025. Its best rank was #202 in 1935.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #202 in 1935; #4,418 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Buddy in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,418 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1935, at #202.
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Buddy: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 23 boys in 2025. Peak: #202 in 1935 · most boys in one year: 604 (1935).
In 2025, 23 US boys were named Buddy, making it the 4,418th most common boys’ name of the year, down 607 places from #3,811 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 29 boys named Buddy in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #202, reached in 1935. That year also had the most boys given the name: 604. For comparison, it was #3,896 in 2015 and #346 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Buddy in 131 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1893 with 5 babies. In all, 22,585 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1930s, with 5,116 babies named Buddy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 281 US boys were named Buddy; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 39. In 2025 that was about 1 in 74,264 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Buddie, Bodey and Boedy are summarised on this page.
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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Buddie (1,501), Bodey (642), Boedy (74), Boady (15), Bohdy (7).
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 Buddy 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 | — | — | 23 | #4,418 |
| 2024 | — | — | 29 | #3,811 |
| 2023 | — | — | 39 | #3,125 |
| 2022 | — | — | 32 | #3,549 |
| 2021 | — | — | 35 | #3,312 |
| 2020 | — | — | 24 | #4,159 |
| 2019 | — | — | 18 | #5,190 |
| 2018 | — | — | 23 | #4,381 |
| 2017 | — | — | 28 | #3,785 |
| 2016 | — | — | 30 | #3,604 |
| 2015 | — | — | 27 | #3,896 |
| 2014 | — | — | 35 | #3,163 |
| 2013 | — | — | 23 | #4,200 |
| 2012 | — | — | 38 | #3,011 |
| 2011 | — | — | 27 | #3,806 |
| 2010 | — | — | 22 | #4,382 |
| 2009 | — | — | 43 | #2,805 |
| 2008 | — | — | 28 | #3,751 |
| 2007 | — | — | 32 | #3,384 |
| 2006 | — | — | 25 | #3,904 |
| 2005 | — | — | 41 | #2,665 |
| 2004 | — | — | 37 | #2,794 |
| 2003 | — | — | 40 | #2,548 |
| 2002 | — | — | 35 | #2,696 |
| 2001 | — | — | 36 | #2,625 |
| 2000 | — | — | 40 | #2,383 |
| 1999 | — | — | 29 | #2,870 |
| 1998 | — | — | 44 | #2,098 |
| 1997 | — | — | 55 | #1,755 |
| 1996 | — | — | 45 | #1,963 |
| 1995 | — | — | 41 | #2,032 |
| 1994 | — | — | 48 | #1,798 |
| 1993 | — | — | 78 | #1,289 |
| 1992 | — | — | 65 | #1,418 |
| 1991 | — | — | 80 | #1,246 |
| 1990 | — | — | 98 | #1,074 |
| 1989 | — | — | 97 | #1,059 |
| 1988 | — | — | 104 | #943 |
| 1987 | — | — | 116 | #866 |
| 1986 | — | — | 121 | #827 |
| 1985 | — | — | 116 | #832 |
| 1984 | — | — | 130 | #759 |
| 1983 | — | — | 138 | #736 |
| 1982 | — | — | 174 | #660 |
| 1981 | — | — | 156 | #691 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,230 | 139 | #744 |
| 1979 | — | — | 168 | #658 |
| 1978 | — | — | 174 | #631 |
| 1977 | — | — | 185 | #617 |
| 1976 | — | — | 170 | #629 |
| 1975 | — | — | 179 | #607 |
| 1974 | — | — | 174 | #609 |
| 1973 | — | — | 205 | #551 |
| 1972 | — | — | 231 | #516 |
| 1971 | — | — | 215 | #549 |
| 1970 | — | — | 188 | #592 |
| 1969 | — | — | 213 | #539 |
| 1968 | — | — | 191 | #546 |
| 1967 | — | — | 213 | #514 |
| 1966 | — | — | 217 | #514 |
| 1965 | — | — | 259 | #483 |
| 1964 | — | — | 279 | #473 |
| 1963 | — | — | 303 | #454 |
| 1962 | — | — | 336 | #435 |
| 1961 | — | — | 377 | #406 |
| 1960 | — | — | 356 | #424 |
| 1959 | — | — | 318 | #449 |
| 1958 | — | — | 350 | #419 |
| 1957 | — | — | 354 | #414 |
| 1956 | — | — | 346 | #408 |
| 1955 | — | — | 356 | #380 |
| 1954 | — | — | 330 | #395 |
| 1953 | — | — | 331 | #381 |
| 1952 | — | — | 315 | #387 |
| 1951 | — | — | 370 | #358 |
| 1950 | — | — | 379 | #346 |
| 1949 | — | — | 344 | #364 |
| 1948 | — | — | 354 | #359 |
| 1947 | — | — | 378 | #350 |
| 1946 | — | — | 366 | #336 |
| 1945 | — | — | 322 | #332 |
| 1944 | — | — | 401 | #299 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,771 | 430 | #296 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,703 | 501 | #266 |
| 1941 | — | — | 456 | #262 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,437 | 448 | #264 |
| 1939 | — | — | 499 | #233 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,485 | 522 | #229 |
| 1937 | — | — | 551 | #216 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,269 | 524 | #221 |
| 1935 | — | — | 604 | #202 |
| 1934 | — | — | 517 | #227 |
| 1933 | — | — | 519 | #222 |
| 1932 | — | — | 467 | #248 |
| 1931 | — | — | 464 | #248 |
| 1930 | — | — | 437 | #269 |
| 1929 | — | — | 355 | #295 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,254 | 251 | #368 |
| 1927 | — | — | 260 | #362 |
| 1926 | — | — | 226 | #393 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,504 | 172 | #462 |
| 1924 | — | — | 177 | #460 |
| 1923 | — | — | 130 | #535 |
| 1922 | — | — | 126 | #566 |
| 1921 | — | — | 112 | #599 |
| 1920 | — | — | 103 | #623 |
| 1919 | — | — | 94 | #624 |
| 1918 | — | — | 97 | #625 |
| 1917 | — | — | 72 | #727 |
| 1916 | — | — | 69 | #725 |
| 1915 | — | — | 64 | #753 |
| 1914 | — | — | 67 | #618 |
| 1913 | — | — | 51 | #618 |
| 1912 | — | — | 34 | #736 |
| 1911 | — | — | 16 | #829 |
| 1910 | — | — | 40 | #431 |
| 1909 | — | — | 15 | #723 |
| 1908 | — | — | 15 | #689 |
| 1907 | — | — | 18 | #594 |
| 1906 | — | — | 15 | #618 |
| 1905 | — | — | 8 | #936 |
| 1904 | — | — | 11 | #730 |
| 1903 | — | — | 6 | #1,027 |
| 1902 | — | — | 15 | #561 |
| 1901 | — | — | 8 | #786 |
| 1900 | — | — | 10 | #847 |
| 1899 | — | — | 5 | #1,068 |
| 1898 | — | — | 5 | #1,144 |
| 1896 | — | — | 11 | #678 |
| 1894 | — | — | 7 | #873 |
| 1893 | — | — | 5 | #1,059 |
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).