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Biddy

Girls' name

Diminutive of Bridget

Biddy has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 1925. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1925, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Biddy, 1928

1 in 452,000

Biddy over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Biddy: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Bridget

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Biddy means

Biddy is a diminutive of Bridget.

Origin, language, and formation

Biddy is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bridget.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Biddy between 1925 and 1928. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1925; its best national rank was #4,804 in 1928.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Biddy?

Biddy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1928, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1928
1 in 452,000
5 of 2,260,857 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1928
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
313,422 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Biddy sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1928 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 313,422 children born in 1928 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Biddy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Biddys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Biddy was born before 1925 — so the typical Biddy is around 100 today.

Median birth year
1925
About 100 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Biddy rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1925 (5)
Years since peak
100
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,804
1928

Spellings of Biddy

Biddy is not the most common spelling — Cindy is, with 77.2% against Biddy's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Biddy around the world

Where Biddy ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2009–2022
    #5,670
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2009–2009
    #893
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    1979–1979
    #627
    in 1979

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Biddy by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,804
1928
Peak year
1925
5 that year
First recorded
1925
Last recorded
1928
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Biddy

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Biddy

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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