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Tedd

Boys' name

Wealth, riches + ward, guard, through Edward

Tedd has been given to 1,261 babies in the U.S. since 1923. 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 1963, with 53 recorded.

Babies named Tedd, 2015

1 in 740,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tedd: meaning, origin, and history

Wealth, riches + ward, guard, through Edward

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tedd means

Tedd belongs to the name family reached through Tedd → Edward. Its meaning is “wealth, riches + ward, guard”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Respelling of Ted, itself a shortening of Edward or Theodore.

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Tedd is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Edward and Ted.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Tedd is pronounced /tɛd/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,261 boys were recorded with the name Tedd between 1923 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 53 in 1963; its best national rank was #1,048 in 1963.

How common is Tedd?

Tedd had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 740,000
5 of 3,701,574 births
Among boys only
1 in 383,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,148 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tedd 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 2015 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 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tedd. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tedds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tedd was born before 1963 — so the typical Tedd is around 62 today.

Median birth year
1963
About 62 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
31.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,055
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 31.2% of all recorded uses (393).

Is Tedd 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 1963 (53)
Years since peak
62
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,048
1963

Spellings of Tedd

Tedd is not the most common spelling — Todd is, with 48.1% against Tedd's 0.21%.

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 Tedd is used

Across 1910–2025, Tedd was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 483,202 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Ohio1 in —
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in —
  8. 8Washington1 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. Tedd has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tedd around the world

Where Tedd 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
    2004–2019
    #4,702
    in 2019
  • France
    2013–2013
    #5,918
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    2003–2008
    #726
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Tedd 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
#1,048
1963
Peak year
1963
53 that year
First recorded
1923
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
1,261
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tedd

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

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Sibling names for Tedd

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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