# Tod (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/tod/  
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 | 7,707 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 7,707 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 12, 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, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 9 | 7,772 |
| 2004 | 7 | 9,846 |
| 2005 | 8 | 9,017 |
| 2006 | 10 | 7,942 |
| 2007 | 6 | 12,217 |
| 2008 | 7 | 10,932 |
| 2009 | 10 | 8,250 |
| 2010 | 8 | 9,594 |
| 2011 | 6 | 12,138 |
| 2012 | 5 | 14,028 |
| 2014 | 6 | 11,977 |
| 2016 | 5 | 14,005 |
| 2017 | 6 | 12,097 |
| 2023 | 5 | 13,995 |
| 2025 | 5 | 13,703 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 3 | 2,863 |
| 1997 | 3 | 2,859 |
| 2021 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2022 | 3 | 4,789 |

## People named Tod

- Tod Browning, American film actor and director (1880–1962)
- Tod Andrews, American actor (1914-1972)
- Tod D. Wolters, American Air Force general
- Tod Brown, Bishop of Orange in California
- Tod Robinson Caldwell, American politician (1818–1874)
- Tod Murphy, American basketball player (born 1963)
- Kip Williams, American director, producer and screenwriter

## 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.