Teddy — #897 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Teddy

The Social Security Administration has registered 33,321 babies named Teddy between 1890 and 2024, spanning 135 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Teddy currently holds the #897 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1949, when 613 babies received it in a single year. Teddy is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,719 additional births since 1905.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Teddy performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 5,416 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Teddy shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 2,315 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Teddy in 43 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Teddy 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 33,321 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.