Meaning not yet researched.
Ted: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 37 in 2025. Its best rank was #144 in 1936.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #144 in 1936; #3,229 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ted in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,229 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1936, at #144.
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Ted: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 37 boys in 2025. Peak: #144 in 1936 · most boys in one year: 1,743 (1958).
In 2025, 37 US boys were named Ted, making it the 3,229th most common boys’ name of the year, down 323 places from #2,906 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 44 boys named Ted in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #144, reached in 1936. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,743, in 1958. For comparison, it was #2,598 in 2015 and #170 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ted in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 13 babies with the name. In all, 75,424 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 14,739 babies named Ted.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 454 US boys were named Ted; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 56. In 2025 that was about 1 in 46,164 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Tedd, Tyde and Tide are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Teddy.
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: Tedd (1,261), Tyde (200), Tide (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.
Ted is listed as a nickname for Edmund, Edward, Theodore.
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 | — | — | 37 | #3,229 |
| 2024 | — | — | 44 | #2,906 |
| 2023 | — | — | 43 | #2,943 |
| 2022 | — | — | 41 | #3,048 |
| 2021 | — | — | 38 | #3,172 |
| 2020 | — | — | 35 | #3,261 |
| 2019 | — | — | 55 | #2,461 |
| 2018 | — | — | 49 | #2,613 |
| 2017 | — | — | 56 | #2,340 |
| 2016 | — | — | 56 | #2,363 |
| 2015 | — | — | 48 | #2,598 |
| 2014 | — | — | 59 | #2,272 |
| 2013 | — | — | 73 | #1,930 |
| 2012 | — | — | 67 | #2,064 |
| 2011 | — | — | 66 | #2,052 |
| 2010 | — | — | 81 | #1,814 |
| 2009 | — | — | 53 | #2,445 |
| 2008 | — | — | 75 | #1,930 |
| 2007 | — | — | 61 | #2,208 |
| 2006 | — | — | 59 | #2,204 |
| 2005 | — | — | 75 | #1,769 |
| 2004 | — | — | 72 | #1,760 |
| 2003 | — | — | 74 | #1,684 |
| 2002 | — | — | 99 | #1,343 |
| 2001 | — | — | 99 | #1,325 |
| 2000 | — | — | 97 | #1,333 |
| 1999 | — | — | 112 | #1,171 |
| 1998 | — | — | 106 | #1,175 |
| 1997 | — | — | 127 | #1,011 |
| 1996 | — | — | 135 | #959 |
| 1995 | — | — | 150 | #895 |
| 1994 | — | — | 163 | #838 |
| 1993 | — | — | 179 | #793 |
| 1992 | — | — | 188 | #760 |
| 1991 | — | — | 177 | #773 |
| 1990 | — | — | 249 | #644 |
| 1989 | — | — | 268 | #599 |
| 1988 | — | — | 290 | #537 |
| 1987 | — | — | 282 | #544 |
| 1986 | — | — | 298 | #511 |
| 1985 | — | — | 267 | #532 |
| 1984 | — | — | 288 | #499 |
| 1983 | — | — | 299 | #488 |
| 1982 | — | — | 317 | #476 |
| 1981 | — | — | 339 | #449 |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,269 | 364 | #430 |
| 1979 | — | — | 354 | #425 |
| 1978 | — | — | 361 | #409 |
| 1977 | — | — | 417 | #383 |
| 1976 | — | — | 432 | #368 |
| 1975 | — | — | 455 | #364 |
| 1974 | — | — | 478 | #353 |
| 1973 | — | — | 543 | #321 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,519 | 664 | #285 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,307 | 802 | #267 |
| 1970 | — | — | 944 | #246 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,561 | 1,058 | #222 |
| 1968 | — | — | 1,047 | #219 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,590 | 953 | #230 |
| 1966 | — | — | 1,075 | #213 |
| 1965 | — | — | 1,243 | #201 |
| 1964 | — | — | 1,507 | #185 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,542 | 1,578 | #188 |
| 1962 | — | — | 1,701 | #180 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,430 | 1,683 | #183 |
| 1960 | — | — | 1,695 | #184 |
| 1959 | — | — | 1,672 | #181 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,938 | 1,743 | #173 |
| 1957 | — | — | 1,636 | #184 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,795 | 1,457 | #192 |
| 1955 | — | — | 1,409 | #188 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,537 | 1,343 | #191 |
| 1953 | — | — | 1,305 | #190 |
| 1952 | — | — | 1,412 | #182 |
| 1951 | 5 | #6,137 | 1,387 | #180 |
| 1950 | — | — | 1,355 | #170 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,972 | 1,379 | #169 |
| 1948 | — | — | 1,476 | #163 |
| 1947 | — | — | 1,647 | #157 |
| 1946 | — | — | 1,490 | #158 |
| 1945 | — | — | 1,238 | #155 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,655 | 1,166 | #160 |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,160 | 1,236 | #157 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,299 | 1,252 | #156 |
| 1941 | — | — | 1,096 | #156 |
| 1940 | — | — | 1,047 | #159 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,201 | 1,079 | #149 |
| 1938 | — | — | 1,111 | #147 |
| 1937 | — | — | 1,062 | #147 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,671 | 1,064 | #144 |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,155 | 1,085 | #144 |
| 1934 | — | — | 1,052 | #146 |
| 1933 | 9 | #3,092 | 1,040 | #145 |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,251 | 1,067 | #147 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,289 | 983 | #155 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,506 | 983 | #156 |
| 1929 | 10 | #3,114 | 853 | #167 |
| 1928 | 12 | #2,750 | 826 | #175 |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,261 | 762 | #190 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,696 | 764 | #191 |
| 1925 | — | — | 670 | #209 |
| 1924 | 11 | #3,127 | 610 | #219 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,333 | 592 | #218 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,698 | 606 | #219 |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,371 | 614 | #214 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,342 | 545 | #231 |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,198 | 572 | #217 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,819 | 564 | #220 |
| 1917 | 10 | #3,058 | 498 | #221 |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,226 | 453 | #235 |
| 1915 | — | — | 403 | #241 |
| 1914 | — | — | 309 | #243 |
| 1913 | — | — | 247 | #239 |
| 1912 | — | — | 244 | #220 |
| 1911 | — | — | 97 | #264 |
| 1910 | — | — | 127 | #204 |
| 1909 | — | — | 122 | #184 |
| 1908 | — | — | 113 | #188 |
| 1907 | — | — | 112 | #189 |
| 1906 | — | — | 89 | #199 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,200 | 115 | #170 |
| 1904 | — | — | 94 | #190 |
| 1903 | — | — | 71 | #211 |
| 1902 | — | — | 87 | #192 |
| 1901 | — | — | 64 | #213 |
| 1900 | — | — | 75 | #234 |
| 1899 | — | — | 34 | #305 |
| 1898 | — | — | 39 | #306 |
| 1897 | — | — | 28 | #358 |
| 1896 | — | — | 30 | #356 |
| 1895 | — | — | 24 | #398 |
| 1894 | — | — | 23 | #397 |
| 1893 | — | — | 12 | #607 |
| 1892 | — | — | 15 | #540 |
| 1891 | — | — | 22 | #375 |
| 1890 | — | — | 20 | #414 |
| 1889 | — | — | 25 | #358 |
| 1888 | — | — | 21 | #414 |
| 1887 | — | — | 20 | #376 |
| 1886 | — | — | 10 | #643 |
| 1885 | — | — | 10 | #635 |
| 1884 | — | — | 10 | #652 |
| 1883 | — | — | 13 | #521 |
| 1882 | — | — | 14 | #513 |
| 1881 | — | — | 7 | #774 |
| 1880 | — | — | 13 | #521 |
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).