Budd — boys' name
1,090 babies named Budd in U.S. Social Security records since 1880, with the highest year being 1923. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
21% of everyone ever named Budd was born in this single decade.
34 babies were named Budd in 1923 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Budd
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,090 babies named Budd between 1880 and 1990, spanning 111 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Budd currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1990. The name reached its historical peak in 1923, when 34 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Budd performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 226 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Budd shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 98 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Budd in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Budd in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,090 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Budd at a glance
Last recorded 1990Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Budd popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1990–1880
- Peak year (1923)
- 34
- Annual births at peak — across 111 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1990.
1,090 total births across 111 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1923 with 34 births in a single year.
Budd by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 226 births that decade — 21% of Budd's all-time total
Budd decade highlights
- Peak decade 226 births
- Runner-up 162 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Budd's strongest decade
226 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 21% of all-time use.
Budd by state
Where Budd concentrates geographically — total births since 1880
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Pennsylvania | | 98 | 9.0% |
| #2 | Ohio | | 5 | 0.5% |
98 of 1,090 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Pennsylvania 9.0% of nationwide
- Ohio 0.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Pennsylvania accounts for 9.0% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1880–1990 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.