Meaning not yet researched.
Tad: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #471 in 1966.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #471 in 1966; #7,619 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tad in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,619 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1966, at #471.
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Tad: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 boys in 2025. Peak: #471 in 1966 · most boys in one year: 265 (1966).
In 2025, 11 US boys were named Tad, making it the 7,619th most common boys’ name of the year, up 79 places from #7,698 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 11 boys named Tad in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #471, reached in 1966. That year also had the most boys given the name: 265. For comparison, it was #5,956 in 2015 and #1,497 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tad in 112 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 5 babies. In all, 6,929 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 1,862 babies named Tad.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 133 US boys were named Tad; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 18. In 2025 that was about 1 in 155,280 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Thad (8,224 babies since 1880) and Tadd (1,457 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tayde, Taide and Tadgh 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Tayde (32), Taide (25), Tadgh (19).
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 Tad 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 | — | — | 11 | #7,619 |
| 2024 | — | — | 11 | #7,698 |
| 2023 | — | — | 14 | #6,467 |
| 2022 | — | — | 11 | #7,701 |
| 2021 | — | — | 13 | #6,631 |
| 2020 | — | — | 10 | #7,985 |
| 2019 | — | — | 17 | #5,530 |
| 2018 | — | — | 17 | #5,513 |
| 2017 | — | — | 11 | #7,481 |
| 2016 | — | — | 18 | #5,290 |
| 2015 | — | — | 15 | #5,956 |
| 2014 | — | — | 20 | #4,846 |
| 2013 | — | — | 19 | #4,955 |
| 2012 | — | — | 21 | #4,660 |
| 2011 | — | — | 23 | #4,337 |
| 2010 | — | — | 9 | #8,706 |
| 2009 | — | — | 25 | #4,147 |
| 2008 | — | — | 22 | #4,519 |
| 2007 | — | — | 31 | #3,500 |
| 2006 | — | — | 36 | #3,077 |
| 2005 | — | — | 37 | #2,893 |
| 2004 | — | — | 35 | #2,947 |
| 2003 | — | — | 31 | #3,105 |
| 2002 | — | — | 38 | #2,596 |
| 2001 | — | — | 32 | #2,920 |
| 2000 | — | — | 31 | #2,912 |
| 1999 | — | — | 29 | #2,930 |
| 1998 | — | — | 29 | #2,842 |
| 1997 | — | — | 47 | #1,961 |
| 1996 | — | — | 58 | #1,668 |
| 1995 | — | — | 66 | #1,474 |
| 1994 | — | — | 75 | #1,351 |
| 1993 | — | — | 88 | #1,204 |
| 1992 | — | — | 79 | #1,279 |
| 1991 | — | — | 110 | #1,037 |
| 1990 | — | — | 92 | #1,128 |
| 1989 | — | — | 108 | #983 |
| 1988 | — | — | 108 | #923 |
| 1987 | — | — | 103 | #933 |
| 1986 | — | — | 133 | #788 |
| 1985 | — | — | 128 | #787 |
| 1984 | — | — | 130 | #762 |
| 1983 | — | — | 76 | #1,021 |
| 1982 | — | — | 65 | #1,138 |
| 1981 | — | — | 84 | #992 |
| 1980 | — | — | 100 | #899 |
| 1979 | — | — | 104 | #853 |
| 1978 | — | — | 116 | #789 |
| 1977 | — | — | 137 | #730 |
| 1976 | — | — | 146 | #687 |
| 1975 | — | — | 169 | #621 |
| 1974 | — | — | 171 | #616 |
| 1973 | — | — | 158 | #633 |
| 1972 | — | — | 160 | #622 |
| 1971 | — | — | 184 | #617 |
| 1970 | — | — | 197 | #576 |
| 1969 | — | — | 169 | #604 |
| 1968 | — | — | 205 | #534 |
| 1967 | — | — | 220 | #507 |
| 1966 | — | — | 265 | #471 |
| 1965 | — | — | 223 | #510 |
| 1964 | — | — | 187 | #579 |
| 1963 | — | — | 169 | #604 |
| 1962 | — | — | 157 | #616 |
| 1961 | — | — | 122 | #693 |
| 1960 | — | — | 145 | #648 |
| 1959 | — | — | 133 | #664 |
| 1958 | — | — | 137 | #659 |
| 1957 | — | — | 149 | #632 |
| 1956 | — | — | 125 | #675 |
| 1955 | — | — | 89 | #778 |
| 1954 | — | — | 49 | #1,076 |
| 1953 | — | — | 43 | #1,136 |
| 1952 | — | — | 25 | #1,546 |
| 1951 | — | — | 27 | #1,452 |
| 1950 | — | — | 25 | #1,497 |
| 1949 | — | — | 16 | #1,934 |
| 1948 | — | — | 26 | #1,455 |
| 1947 | — | — | 26 | #1,476 |
| 1946 | — | — | 18 | #1,750 |
| 1945 | — | — | 16 | #1,764 |
| 1944 | — | — | 17 | #1,726 |
| 1943 | — | — | 27 | #1,364 |
| 1942 | — | — | 22 | #1,530 |
| 1941 | — | — | 13 | #2,077 |
| 1940 | — | — | 20 | #1,567 |
| 1939 | — | — | 20 | #1,529 |
| 1938 | — | — | 11 | #2,311 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,964 |
| 1936 | — | — | 9 | #2,604 |
| 1935 | — | — | 13 | #2,118 |
| 1934 | — | — | 12 | #2,247 |
| 1933 | — | — | 21 | #1,538 |
| 1932 | — | — | 19 | #1,705 |
| 1931 | — | — | 6 | #3,714 |
| 1930 | — | — | 7 | #3,557 |
| 1929 | — | — | 19 | #1,786 |
| 1928 | — | — | 10 | #2,824 |
| 1927 | — | — | 7 | #3,741 |
| 1926 | — | — | 12 | #2,551 |
| 1925 | — | — | 12 | #2,572 |
| 1924 | — | — | 5 | #4,877 |
| 1923 | — | — | 6 | #4,188 |
| 1922 | — | — | 9 | #3,220 |
| 1921 | — | — | 10 | #2,966 |
| 1920 | — | — | 6 | #4,229 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,732 |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,730 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,508 |
| 1915 | — | — | 12 | #2,292 |
| 1913 | — | — | 5 | #3,209 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,864 |
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).