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Buddie

Boys' name

Alternative spelling of Buddy

Buddie has been given to 1,501 babies in the U.S. since 1891. 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 47 recorded.

Babies named Buddie, 1983

1 in 693,000

Buddie over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Buddie: meaning, origin, and history

Alternative spelling of Buddy

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Buddie means

Buddie is a alternative spelling of Buddy.

Origin, language, and formation

Buddie is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Buddy.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,496 boys were recorded with the name Buddie between 1891 and 1983. Its highest annual count was 47 in 1925; its best national rank was #618 in 1909.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Buddie between 1937 and 1937. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1937; its best national rank was #4,320 in 1937.

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 Buddie?

Buddie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1983, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1983
1 in 693,000
5 of 3,463,011 births
Among boys only
1 in 358,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1983
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
480,076 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Buddie 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 1983 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 480,076 children born in 1983 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Buddie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Buddies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Buddie was born before 1930 — so the typical Buddie is around 95 today.

Median birth year
1930
About 95 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
25.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
215
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1930s — 25.1% of all recorded uses (375).

Is Buddie 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 1925 (47)
Years since peak
100
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#618
1909

Spellings of Buddie

Buddie is not the most common spelling — Eddie is, with 79.6% against Buddie's 0.56%.

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 Buddie is used

Across 1910–2025, Buddie was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 211,613 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 100,000
  2. 2Arkansas1 in 100,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in 100,000
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 100,000
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 100,000
  6. 6Kentucky1 in —
  7. 7Mississippi1 in —
  8. 8South Carolina1 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. Buddie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Buddie around the world

Where Buddie 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
    2012–2023
    #4,108
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Buddie 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
#618
1909
Peak year
1925
47 that year
First recorded
1891
Last recorded
1983
All-time count
1,496
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,320
1937
Peak year
1937
5 that year
First recorded
1937
Last recorded
1937
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Buddie

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

TeddieKodieCodieLaddieFredieWoodieJodieBuddAudieGordieBrodieOdieHardieBuddyRandieIndieGoldieBodieGradieClaudieAndieAddieRoddieBud

Sibling names for Buddie

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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