Todd
Todd was given to 105 boys in 2025, #1,618 among boys’ names; 283,390 Americans have been recorded with it since 1881 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 240,000 Americans named Todd and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 49 and 61.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Todd by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Todd mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Todd is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
/tɑd/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Todd?
#1,618 among boys’ names, 2025
Todd fell from #976 in 2015 to #1,618 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.11 to 0.06 per 1,000.
15,397 babies in 1964, the peak
Todd peaked in 1964, when 15,397 babies were given it (15,350 boys, #28 among boys’ names). The 105 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 105 | #1,618 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 108 | #1,597 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 112 | #1,565 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 123 | #1,477 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 115 | #1,537 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 123 | #1,413 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 157 | #1,216 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 158 | #1,198 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 162 | #1,163 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 185 | #1,072 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (121)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 212 | #976 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 180 | #1,078 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 207 | #969 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 237 | #887 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 244 | #866 | 0.13 |
| 2010 | 264 | #814 | 0.14 |
| 2009 | 235 | #890 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 287 | #774 | 0.14 |
| 2007 | 326 | #711 | 0.16 |
| 2006 | 354 | #653 | 0.17 |
| 2005 | 390 | #583 | 0.20 |
| 2004 | 441 | #535 | 0.22 |
| 2003 | 466 | #517 | 0.24 |
| 2002 | 510 | #468 | 0.26 |
| 2001 | 530 | #457 | 0.27 |
| 2000 | 583 | #425 | 0.30 |
| 1999 | 627 | #394 | 0.33 |
| 1998 | 703 | #365 | 0.37 |
| 1997 | 843 | #314 | 0.45 |
| 1996 | 890 | #299 | 0.47 |
| 1995 | 1,028 | #271 | 0.54 |
| 1994 | 1,141 | #252 | 0.59 |
| 1993 | 1,238 | #235 | 0.63 |
| 1992 | 1,425 | #216 | 0.71 |
| 1991 | 1,743 | #179 | 0.86 |
| 1990 | 1,976 | #159 | 1.0 |
| 1989 | 2,125 | #146 | 1.1 |
| 1988 | 2,201 | #135 | 1.1 |
| 1987 | 2,355 | #120 | 1.3 |
| 1986 | 2,586 | #110 | 1.4 |
| 1985 | 2,941 | #99 | 1.6 |
| 1984 | 3,104 | #92 | 1.7 |
| 1983 | 3,334 | #87 | 1.9 |
| 1982 | 3,598 | #82 | 2.0 |
| 1981 | 3,953 | #74 | 2.2 |
| 1980 | 4,128 | #75 | 2.3 |
| 1979 | 4,984 | #60 | 2.9 |
| 1978 | 5,497 | #56 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 6,276 | #50 | 3.8 |
| 1976 | 6,440 | #50 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 7,151 | #43 | 4.6 |
| 1974 | 7,845 | #39 | 5.0 |
| 1973 | 8,677 | #35 | 5.6 |
| 1972 | 9,968 | #31 | 6.1 |
| 1971 | 12,055 | #30 | 6.8 |
| 1970 | 14,426 | #28 | 7.8 |
| 1969 | 14,745 | #28 | 8.2 |
| 1968 | 14,659 | #28 | 8.4 |
| 1967 | 13,453 | #29 | 7.7 |
| 1966 | 13,557 | #29 | 7.6 |
| 1965 | 13,934 | #30 | 7.5 |
| 1964 | 15,350 | #28 | 7.7 |
| 1963 | 14,789 | #30 | 7.3 |
| 1962 | 12,752 | #30 | 6.2 |
| 1961 | 9,750 | #46 | 4.6 |
| 1960 | 5,752 | #71 | 2.7 |
| 1959 | 4,332 | #99 | 2.0 |
| 1958 | 3,468 | #116 | 1.6 |
| 1957 | 2,405 | #143 | 1.1 |
| 1956 | 2,008 | #156 | 0.95 |
| 1955 | 1,615 | #173 | 0.78 |
| 1954 | 1,291 | #195 | 0.63 |
| 1953 | 1,101 | #207 | 0.56 |
| 1952 | 960 | #213 | 0.49 |
| 1951 | 796 | #241 | 0.42 |
| 1950 | 593 | #272 | 0.33 |
| 1949 | 461 | #317 | 0.26 |
| 1948 | 346 | #363 | 0.20 |
| 1947 | 304 | #393 | 0.17 |
| 1946 | 237 | #413 | 0.15 |
| 1945 | 163 | #468 | 0.12 |
| 1944 | 176 | #459 | 0.13 |
| 1943 | 161 | #486 | 0.11 |
| 1942 | 134 | #529 | 0.10 |
| 1941 | 99 | #602 | 0.08 |
| 1940 | 88 | #641 | 0.08 |
| 1939 | 68 | #732 | 0.06 |
| 1938 | 68 | #747 | 0.06 |
| 1937 | 51 | #866 | 0.05 |
| 1936 | 42 | #969 | 0.04 |
| 1935 | 37 | #1,076 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 32 | #1,188 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 27 | #1,307 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 27 | #1,355 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 18 | #1,762 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 28 | #1,396 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 35 | #1,190 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,152 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,685 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 21 | #1,713 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 20 | #1,795 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 33 | #1,284 | 0.03 |
| 1923 | 22 | #1,690 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 16 | #2,134 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 29 | #1,410 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 26 | #1,500 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,098 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 15 | #2,153 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 21 | #1,638 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 20 | #1,641 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 19 | #1,655 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,254 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 10 | #1,932 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,372 | 0.04 |
| 1907 | 5 | #1,526 | 0.03 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,384 | 0.04 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,120 | 0.05 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,150 | 0.05 |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,057 | 0.05 |
| 1882 | 6 | #935 | 0.05 |
| 1881 | 7 | #775 | 0.07 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Todd a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Todd has been given almost only to boys: 1,060 girls in 121 years of records.
Girls and boys named Todd: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Todd, and how old are they?
240,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 85% of the 283,390 Americans ever recorded as Todd. The median Todd alive today is 56 years old; half are between 49 and 61.
The 2020 Census counted 238,713 people named Todd (226 women and girls, 238,487 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 251,468 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 369 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 59,400 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 138,000 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 33,800 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,910 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,930 |
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 Todd born?
The states with the most babies named Todd are California, Ohio and New York, with 23% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 22,639 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 21,767 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| New York | 18,794 | #1,737 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 18,717 | #1,244 | 1.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 17,872 | #1,085 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 16,116 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Wisconsin | 13,577 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Minnesota | 12,332 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Indiana | 9,652 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 8,824 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Todd is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Todd is most over-represented in South Dakota: since 1910 it was given 2.4 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 Todd 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, Todd is the most given (97% of them). In 2025 it was given to 105 of their 110 babies (95%), again the 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 Todd
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 Todd and names like it
- Compare Todd and TodBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sTodd peaked in 1964.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Todd since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Todd: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1964The year the most babies were named Todd.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Todd alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.