Tod
Tod was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,699 among boys’ names; 7,707 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,030 Americans named Tod and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (78% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 56 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tod by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tod?
#13,699 among boys’ names, 2025
Tod entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #13,699 in 2025.
568 babies in 1962, the peak
Tod peaked in 1962, when 568 boys were given it, #331 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,699 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 5 | #13,990 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 6 | #12,092 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 5 | #13,999 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 6 | #11,971 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 5 | #14,021 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 6 | #12,131 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,587 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 10 | #8,245 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,925 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (93)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 6 | #12,211 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,936 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 8 | #9,010 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,840 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,765 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 6 | #10,534 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,458 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,872 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 12 | #5,617 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 20 | #3,692 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,216 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 26 | #2,898 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 21 | #3,288 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 30 | #2,549 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 24 | #2,933 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 16 | #3,899 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 22 | #2,974 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 32 | #2,247 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 33 | #2,138 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 30 | #2,130 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 28 | #2,164 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 29 | #2,051 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 21 | #2,495 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 47 | #1,394 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 32 | #1,784 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 49 | #1,360 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 50 | #1,331 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 41 | #1,521 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 37 | #1,593 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 55 | #1,213 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 51 | #1,249 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 65 | #1,040 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 63 | #1,052 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 95 | #830 | 0.06 |
| 1973 | 133 | #698 | 0.09 |
| 1972 | 152 | #650 | 0.09 |
| 1971 | 205 | #572 | 0.12 |
| 1970 | 284 | #479 | 0.15 |
| 1969 | 294 | #452 | 0.16 |
| 1968 | 302 | #440 | 0.17 |
| 1967 | 303 | #435 | 0.17 |
| 1966 | 277 | #458 | 0.16 |
| 1965 | 337 | #423 | 0.18 |
| 1964 | 543 | #337 | 0.27 |
| 1963 | 558 | #333 | 0.27 |
| 1962 | 568 | #331 | 0.27 |
| 1961 | 507 | #352 | 0.24 |
| 1960 | 307 | #457 | 0.14 |
| 1959 | 265 | #481 | 0.12 |
| 1958 | 297 | #457 | 0.14 |
| 1957 | 186 | #566 | 0.09 |
| 1956 | 144 | #632 | 0.07 |
| 1955 | 148 | #612 | 0.07 |
| 1954 | 107 | #704 | 0.05 |
| 1953 | 90 | #751 | 0.05 |
| 1952 | 92 | #738 | 0.05 |
| 1951 | 62 | #900 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 60 | #891 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 38 | #1,161 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 37 | #1,190 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 37 | #1,209 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 25 | #1,434 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,531 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 23 | #1,434 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 37 | #1,139 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 22 | #1,533 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 24 | #1,408 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 30 | #1,249 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 16 | #1,787 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 15 | #1,891 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,492 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,291 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,154 | under 0.01 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,719 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,276 | under 0.01 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,497 | under 0.01 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,226 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,773 | under 0.01 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,308 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,823 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,920 | under 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,750 | under 0.01 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,295 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tod a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tod has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 93 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tod: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tod, and how old are they?
6,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 78% of the 7,707 Americans ever recorded as Tod. The median Tod alive today is 62 years old; half are between 56 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 6,665 people named Tod (29 women and girls, 6,636 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,462 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 68 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3,000 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,320 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 464 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 148 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 27 |
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).
Where are babies named Tod born?
The states with the most babies named Tod are California, Ohio and Illinois, with 36% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 850 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 648 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 444 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 381 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 374 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 294 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Wisconsin | 278 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Texas | 258 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 227 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Washington | 203 | not ranked | 1.6× |
Where Tod is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tod is most over-represented in Oregon: since 1915 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Tod with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 291,151 babies since 1880, Tod is the second most given (2.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 110 babies (4.5%), 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 Tod
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 Tod and names like it
- Compare Tod and ToddBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sTod peaked in 1962.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tod since 1910.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Tod.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Tod alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.