Teddie
Teddie is given to both girls and boys: 39 girls and 7 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,825 among girls’ names and #10,559 among boys’, #5,982 among all names counting both); 2,539 Americans have been recorded with it since 1900 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,480 Americans named Teddie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (58% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 35 and 73.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Teddie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Teddie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Teddie is “a diminutive of the male given names Edward and Theodore, or of their diminutives Ted and Tedd. Alternative spelling of Teddy.”
From Ted + -ie.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Teddie?
#10,559 among boys’ names, 2025
Teddie entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #10,559 in 2025.
54 babies in 1960, the peak
Teddie peaked in 1960, when 54 babies were given it (28 boys, #1,546 among boys’ names). The 46 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 85% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39 | #3,825 | 7 | #10,559 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,591 | 5 | #14,021 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,135 | 6 | #12,084 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,614 | 5 | #14,105 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,599 | 6 | #11,974 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,360 | 5 | #13,825 |
| 2019 | 14 | #8,095 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,754 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,976 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,822 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (111)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #10,792 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 6 | #11,944 | |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,236 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,444 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 7 | #10,530 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 6 | #10,731 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 6 | #10,512 | |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,950 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,277 | 8 | #7,795 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,949 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 5 | #10,647 | |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,469 | 6 | #8,882 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,997 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 13 | #7,052 | 6 | #8,683 |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,284 | 8 | #6,753 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,623 | 5 | #9,659 |
| 1991 | 8 | #10,176 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 8 | #6,345 | |
| 1989 | 6 | #12,226 | 12 | #4,488 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,251 | 8 | #5,684 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,296 | 5 | #8,016 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,449 | 9 | #4,800 |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,198 | 9 | #4,648 |
| 1984 | under 5 | 12 | #3,663 | |
| 1983 | 6 | #10,165 | 15 | #3,055 |
| 1982 | 7 | #9,146 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 8 | #4,912 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 15 | #3,082 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 12 | #3,544 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 13 | #3,200 | |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,363 | 6 | #5,772 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,750 | 12 | #3,241 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,448 | 12 | #3,218 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,605 | 15 | #2,658 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,654 | 9 | #3,665 |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,166 | 5 | #5,668 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,568 | 6 | #4,857 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,774 | 11 | #3,049 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,544 | 14 | #2,405 |
| 1968 | under 5 | 15 | #2,187 | |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,402 | 19 | #1,848 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,228 | 9 | #2,962 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,928 | 17 | #1,980 |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,497 | 18 | #1,964 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,319 | 18 | #1,952 |
| 1962 | 21 | #2,730 | 28 | #1,510 |
| 1961 | 16 | #3,306 | 17 | #2,061 |
| 1960 | 26 | #2,363 | 28 | #1,546 |
| 1959 | 16 | #3,092 | 22 | #1,755 |
| 1958 | 19 | #2,740 | 17 | #2,015 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,469 | 21 | #1,784 |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,709 | 20 | #1,809 |
| 1955 | 21 | #2,464 | 20 | #1,785 |
| 1954 | 22 | #2,371 | 21 | #1,698 |
| 1953 | 30 | #1,864 | 21 | #1,704 |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,400 | 17 | #1,930 |
| 1951 | 27 | #1,917 | 26 | #1,484 |
| 1950 | 18 | #2,424 | 21 | #1,651 |
| 1949 | 23 | #2,060 | 24 | #1,538 |
| 1948 | 18 | #2,409 | 19 | #1,753 |
| 1947 | 21 | #2,191 | 19 | #1,781 |
| 1946 | 18 | #2,307 | 27 | #1,375 |
| 1945 | 21 | #1,869 | 21 | #1,488 |
| 1944 | 23 | #1,798 | 25 | #1,365 |
| 1943 | 11 | #3,019 | 26 | #1,395 |
| 1942 | 20 | #1,973 | 19 | #1,675 |
| 1941 | 25 | #1,602 | 21 | #1,526 |
| 1940 | 16 | #2,096 | 33 | #1,179 |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,403 | 19 | #1,572 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,432 | 25 | #1,358 |
| 1937 | 16 | #2,087 | 21 | #1,522 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,834 | 30 | #1,223 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,391 | 16 | #1,826 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,763 | 25 | #1,383 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,670 | 30 | #1,226 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,353 | 25 | #1,422 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,414 | 27 | #1,357 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,311 | 17 | #1,883 |
| 1929 | under 5 | 24 | #1,521 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 25 | #1,516 | |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,237 | 17 | #2,024 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,259 | 15 | #2,175 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,906 | 18 | #1,928 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,803 | 18 | #1,958 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,911 | 11 | #2,756 |
| 1922 | under 5 | 8 | #3,501 | |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,979 | 14 | #2,365 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,669 | 15 | #2,216 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,473 | 15 | #2,136 |
| 1918 | under 5 | 18 | #1,897 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 21 | #1,637 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 12 | #2,377 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 11 | #2,438 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 10 | #2,250 | |
| 1913 | under 5 | 7 | #2,478 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 8 | #2,031 | |
| 1910 | under 5 | 7 | #1,407 | |
| 1907 | under 5 | 7 | #1,188 | |
| 1904 | under 5 | 7 | #1,053 | |
| 1903 | under 5 | 8 | #903 | |
| 1900 | under 5 | 5 | #1,482 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Teddie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,539 Americans recorded as Teddie, 43% are girls and 57% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Teddie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Teddie, and how old are they?
1,480 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 58% of the 2,539 Americans ever recorded as Teddie. The median Teddie alive today is 61 years old; half are between 35 and 73.
The 2020 Census counted 1,330 people named Teddie (680 women and girls, 650 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,506 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 166 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 558 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 247 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 214 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 67 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 227 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 37,941 babies since 1880, Teddie is the second most given (6.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 46 of their 403 babies (11%), again the second most given.
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 Teddie
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 Teddie and names like it
- Compare Teddie and TeddyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sTeddie peaked in 1960.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Teddie since 1910.
- The top names of 1960The year the most babies were named Teddie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Teddie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.