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Budd

Boys' name

From Old English Budda; literal meaning unconfirmed

Budd has been given to 1,090 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1923, with 34 recorded.

Babies named Budd, 1990

1 in 658,000

Budd over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Budd: meaning, origin, and history

From Old English Budda; literal meaning unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Budd means

Budd is a given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Old English Budda, a nickname of uncertain meaning.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Budd (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Budd is used in English.

Budd comes through Old English Budda.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,090 boys were recorded with the name Budd between 1880 and 1990. Its highest annual count was 34 in 1923; its best national rank was #651 in 1885.

How common is Budd?

Budd had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1990, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1990
1 in 658,000
6 of 3,949,959 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1990
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
456,318 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Budd sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1990 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 456,318 children born in 1990 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Budd. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Budds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Budd was born before 1936 — so the typical Budd is around 89 today.

Median birth year
1936
About 89 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
20.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
352
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 20.7% of all recorded uses (226).

Is Budd 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1923 (34)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#651
1885

Spellings of Budd

Budd is not the most common spelling — Todd is, with 48.5% against Budd's 0.19%.

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.

Where Budd is used

Across 1910–2025, Budd was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 166,742 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  2. 2Ohio1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Budd has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Budd around the world

Where Budd 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.

  • South Australia
    1984–2000
    #556
    in 2000

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Budd by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#651
1885
Peak year
1923
34 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
1990
All-time count
1,090
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Budd

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

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Sibling names for Budd

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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