Budd
Budd was last recorded in 1990, when 6 babies were given it; 1,090 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Budd by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Budd mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Budd is “a male given name.”
From Old English Budda, a nickname of uncertain meaning.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Budd?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #7,286, in 1990; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
34 babies in 1923, the peak
Budd peaked in 1923, when 34 boys were given it, #1,237 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 6 | #7,286 | 2.9 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,295 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,247 | 4.2 |
| 1986 | 8 | #4,902 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 12 | #3,487 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,640 | 6.2 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,439 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,196 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,706 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,301 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 5 | #5,193 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,501 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,012 | 4.0 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,556 | 4.3 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,474 | 2.8 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,405 | 4.0 |
| 1967 | 11 | #2,489 | 6.3 |
| 1966 | 10 | #2,643 | 5.6 |
| 1965 | 14 | #2,191 | 7.5 |
| 1964 | 16 | #2,047 | 8.0 |
| 1963 | 9 | #2,881 | 4.4 |
| 1962 | 10 | #2,690 | 4.8 |
| 1961 | 16 | #2,074 | 7.5 |
| 1960 | 9 | #2,895 | 4.2 |
| 1959 | 15 | #2,125 | 7.0 |
| 1958 | 15 | #2,105 | 7.1 |
| 1957 | 18 | #1,894 | 8.3 |
| 1956 | 18 | #1,892 | 8.5 |
| 1955 | 12 | #2,313 | 5.8 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,053 | 7.4 |
| 1953 | 13 | #2,196 | 6.6 |
| 1952 | 10 | #2,531 | 5.1 |
| 1951 | 19 | #1,730 | 10.1 |
| 1950 | 8 | #2,794 | 4.5 |
| 1949 | 9 | #2,630 | 5.1 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,038 | 8.0 |
| 1947 | 20 | #1,701 | 10.9 |
| 1946 | 18 | #1,695 | 11.1 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,141 | 8.2 |
| 1944 | 10 | #2,325 | 7.3 |
| 1943 | 18 | #1,702 | 12.6 |
| 1942 | 15 | #1,872 | 10.9 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,006 | 10.6 |
| 1940 | 14 | #1,909 | 12.1 |
| 1939 | 13 | #1,968 | 11.7 |
| 1938 | 13 | #1,992 | 11.7 |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,696 | 15.9 |
| 1936 | 14 | #1,880 | 13.5 |
| 1935 | 15 | #1,848 | 14.4 |
| 1934 | 14 | #1,944 | 13.6 |
| 1933 | 15 | #1,837 | 15.1 |
| 1932 | 16 | #1,854 | 15.3 |
| 1931 | 16 | #1,857 | 15.4 |
| 1930 | 24 | #1,498 | 21.9 |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,009 | 13.9 |
| 1928 | 25 | #1,482 | 22.6 |
| 1927 | 26 | #1,478 | 23.1 |
| 1926 | 22 | #1,614 | 19.8 |
| 1925 | 25 | #1,500 | 22.4 |
| 1924 | 21 | #1,730 | 18.5 |
| 1923 | 34 | #1,237 | 31.0 |
| 1922 | 16 | #2,051 | 14.7 |
| 1921 | 19 | #1,836 | 17.3 |
| 1920 | 23 | #1,600 | 21.6 |
| 1919 | 24 | #1,488 | 24.5 |
| 1918 | 23 | #1,546 | 22.7 |
| 1917 | 21 | #1,595 | 22.7 |
| 1916 | 21 | #1,556 | 23.6 |
| 1915 | 23 | #1,415 | 27.1 |
| 1914 | 18 | #1,447 | 27.5 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,377 | 29.3 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,536 | 25.6 |
| 1911 | 6 | #1,560 | 26.6 |
| 1901 | 6 | #965 | 56.4 |
| 1896 | 6 | #994 | 50.2 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,057 | 44.5 |
| 1886 | 7 | #772 | 63.2 |
| 1885 | 9 | #651 | 83.5 |
| 1884 | 7 | #782 | 61.2 |
| 1883 | 6 | #812 | 57.3 |
| 1880 | 5 | #934 | 45.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Budd a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Budd has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 81 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Budd: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Budd, and how old are they?
An estimated 355 Americans named Budd and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (33% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 56 and 75. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 472 people named Budd (0 women and girls, 472 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 430 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Budd rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 10,592 babies since 1880, Budd is the second most given (10% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Budd
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Budd and names like it
- Compare Budd and BudBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sBudd peaked in 1923.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Budd since 1910.
- The top names of 1923The year the most babies were named Budd.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Budd alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.