# Teddy (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/teddy/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 35,402 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 33,627 / 1,775 (5% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 22,283, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 12 | 9,673 |
| 2012 | 7 | 14,846 |
| 2013 | 10 | 10,936 |
| 2014 | 19 | 6,684 |
| 2015 | 9 | 11,752 |
| 2016 | 14 | 8,354 |
| 2017 | 12 | 9,295 |
| 2018 | 18 | 6,760 |
| 2019 | 28 | 4,893 |
| 2020 | 27 | 4,866 |
| 2021 | 38 | 3,931 |
| 2022 | 44 | 3,588 |
| 2023 | 62 | 2,785 |
| 2024 | 45 | 3,507 |
| 2025 | 56 | 2,994 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 69 | 1,998 |
| 2012 | 63 | 2,151 |
| 2013 | 65 | 2,088 |
| 2014 | 72 | 1,995 |
| 2015 | 91 | 1,716 |
| 2016 | 84 | 1,808 |
| 2017 | 97 | 1,641 |
| 2018 | 99 | 1,647 |
| 2019 | 121 | 1,449 |
| 2020 | 135 | 1,334 |
| 2021 | 169 | 1,169 |
| 2022 | 212 | 1,043 |
| 2023 | 222 | 996 |
| 2024 | 265 | 895 |
| 2025 | 301 | 823 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 3 | 3,795 |
| 2002 | 3 | 4,137 |
| 2013 | 10 | 2,460 |
| 2014 | 16 | 1,798 |
| 2015 | 10 | 2,496 |
| 2016 | 14 | 2,008 |
| 2017 | 7 | 3,229 |
| 2018 | 11 | 2,340 |
| 2019 | 15 | 1,854 |
| 2020 | 13 | 2,042 |
| 2021 | 12 | 2,201 |
| 2022 | 9 | 2,673 |
| 2023 | 9 | 2,689 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,891 |
| 2025 | 7 | 3,333 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 380 | 156 |
| 2012 | 422 | 141 |
| 2013 | 698 | 86 |
| 2014 | 1,017 | 66 |
| 2015 | 1,430 | 42 |
| 2016 | 1,491 | 41 |
| 2017 | 1,626 | 39 |
| 2018 | 1,663 | 39 |
| 2019 | 1,704 | 32 |
| 2020 | 1,627 | 31 |
| 2021 | 1,875 | 26 |
| 2022 | 2,030 | 20 |
| 2023 | 1,687 | 23 |
| 2024 | 1,506 | 29 |
| 2025 | 1,360 | 34 |

## People named Teddy

- Teddy Sheringham, English footballer and manager (born 1966)
- Teddy Scholten, Dutch singer
- Teddy Riner, French judoka
- Teddy Tamgho, French triple jumper and long jumper
- Teddy Sears, American actor
- Teddy Dunn, American actor
- Teddy Swims, American singer-songwriter
- Teddy Teuma, French and Maltese association football player
- Teddy Geiger, American singer and songwriter
- Teddy Richert, French footballer (born 1974)
- Teddy Chevalier, French footballer (born 1987)
- Teddy Billington, American racing cyclist

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.