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Ted
Pronounced /tɛd/
Rank in 2024
#2,917
Born in 2024
43
Peak year
1958 · #173
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 43 boys were named Ted, about 1 in every 39,891.
- It peaked in 1958 with 1,743 babies, ranked #173.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 75,122 boys have been named Ted since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Ted per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.6Greatest1901–27
- 0.9Silent1928–45
- 0.8Boomers1946–64
- 0.4Gen X1965–80
- 0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 9,544 babies, 0.57 per 1,000. Silent: 19,240 babies, 0.93 per 1,000. Boomers: 28,875 babies, 0.77 per 1,000. Gen X: 11,190 babies, 0.41 per 1,000. Millennials: 3,889 babies, 0.13 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,323 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 596 babies, 0.03 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Shortened form of Edward, Theodore, Thaddeus or Edmund.
- A nickname for the male given names Edward, Theodore, Thaddeus, and Edmund.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /tɛd/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Ted, CC BY-SA 4.0.