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Teddy

Pronounced /ˈtɛdi/

Rank in 2024
#895
Born in 2024
262
Peak year
1949 · #264
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:45 in 2024 (#3,446)

1880 to 2024

Rising
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 262 boys were named Teddy, about 1 in every 6,547.
  • It peaked in 1949 with 613 babies, ranked #264.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1890.
  • 33,321 boys have been named Teddy since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Teddy per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0.2
    Greatest
  2. 0.4
    Silent
  3. 0.3
    Boomers
  4. 0.2
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 3,518 babies, 0.21 per 1,000. Silent: 8,083 babies, 0.39 per 1,000. Boomers: 10,504 babies, 0.28 per 1,000. Gen X: 5,665 babies, 0.21 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,607 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,283 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,627 babies, 0.07 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Ted + -y.

  • A diminutive of the male given names Edward and Theodore, or of their diminutives Ted and Tedd.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ˈtɛdi/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Teddy, CC BY-SA 4.0.