Buddie
Buddie was last recorded in 1983, when 5 babies were given it; 1,501 Americans have been recorded with it between 1891 and 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Buddie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Buddie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #6,363, in 1983; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
47 babies in 1925, the peak
Buddie peaked in 1925, when 47 boys were given it, #998 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 5 | #6,363 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,392 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,603 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,168 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 11 | #3,425 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #3,884 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,017 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,399 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,728 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,796 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 7 | #3,276 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 9 | #2,885 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,071 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 9 | #2,919 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 15 | #2,126 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 9 | #2,848 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,282 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 18 | #1,893 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 8 | #2,989 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 10 | #2,608 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 9 | #2,727 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 10 | #2,532 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 9 | #2,683 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 16 | #1,885 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 17 | #1,825 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 15 | #1,950 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 16 | #1,926 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,042 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 14 | #1,858 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 16 | #1,746 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 17 | #1,776 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 27 | #1,337 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 23 | #1,415 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 21 | #1,476 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 24 | #1,363 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 38 | #1,044 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 41 | #989 | 0.04 |
| 1936 | 32 | #1,172 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 41 | #993 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 43 | #973 | 0.04 |
| 1933 | 35 | #1,104 | 0.04 |
| 1932 | 38 | #1,093 | 0.04 |
| 1931 | 45 | #983 | 0.04 |
| 1930 | 38 | #1,135 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 32 | #1,241 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 24 | #1,525 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 37 | #1,179 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 35 | #1,224 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 47 | #998 | 0.04 |
| 1924 | 42 | #1,110 | 0.04 |
| 1923 | 43 | #1,087 | 0.04 |
| 1922 | 39 | #1,144 | 0.04 |
| 1921 | 34 | #1,254 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 33 | #1,254 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 30 | #1,299 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 33 | #1,215 | 0.03 |
| 1917 | 40 | #1,034 | 0.04 |
| 1916 | 34 | #1,123 | 0.04 |
| 1915 | 32 | #1,141 | 0.04 |
| 1914 | 29 | #1,056 | 0.04 |
| 1913 | 18 | #1,212 | 0.04 |
| 1912 | 18 | #1,099 | 0.04 |
| 1911 | 10 | #1,123 | 0.04 |
| 1910 | 13 | #874 | 0.07 |
| 1909 | 19 | #618 | 0.12 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,028 | 0.05 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,211 | 0.04 |
| 1906 | 11 | #761 | 0.08 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,111 | 0.05 |
| 1904 | 11 | #729 | 0.09 |
| 1903 | 9 | #794 | 0.08 |
| 1902 | 8 | #871 | 0.07 |
| 1900 | 11 | #791 | 0.07 |
| 1897 | 9 | #732 | 0.08 |
| 1891 | 6 | #855 | 0.06 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Buddie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Buddie has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 75 years of records.
Girls and boys named Buddie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Buddie, and how old are they?
An estimated 285 Americans named Buddie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (19% of everyone recorded); the median is 74 years old and half are between 62 and 84. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 407 people named Buddie (48 women and girls, 359 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 400 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Buddie?
Buddie is a less common spelling of Buddy: SSA has recorded 1,501 Buddie and 22,585 Buddy since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 24,086 babies since 1880, Buddie is the second most given (6.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 23 babies recorded by SSA was a Buddie (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Buddie
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 Buddie and names like it
- Compare Buddie and BuddyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sBuddie peaked in 1925.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Buddie since 1910.
- The top names of 1925The year the most babies were named Buddie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Buddie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.