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Tod

#13,699 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Todd

Tod has been given to 7,707 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #13,699 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1962, with 568 recorded.

Babies named Tod, 2025

1 in 663,000

Tod over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tod: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Todd

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tod means

Tod is a variant of Todd.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Tod is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈtɑd/ and /ˈtɒd/ for Tod.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Tod → Todd. The family’s meaning is “fox”, recorded in the naming reference for Todd.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Todd.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,707 boys were recorded with the name Tod between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 568 in 1962; its best national rank was #331 in 1962.

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.

How common is Tod?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,699
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tod 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 2025 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tod. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tods were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tod was born before 1964 — so the typical Tod is around 61 today.

Median birth year
1964
About 61 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
51.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
7,296
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 51.8% of all recorded uses (3,996).

Is Tod 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0.88%
Peak was 1962 (568)
Years since peak
63
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#331
1962

Where Tod is used

Across 1910–2025, Tod was most concentrated in Oregon — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 29,673 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oregon1 in 11,111
  2. 2Ohio1 in 12,500
  3. 3Wisconsin1 in 12,500
  4. 4Iowa1 in 14,286
  5. 5Washington1 in 14,286
  6. 6Michigan1 in 16,667
  7. 7California1 in 20,000
  8. 8Idaho1 in 20,000

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. Tod has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tod around the world

Where Tod 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
    1996–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2017–2017
    #2,944
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1965–1999
    #539
    in 1999

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

Notable people named Tod

People whose public names include Tod, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Tod in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Tod. Linked forms have their own page here.

Todd

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Tod by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,699
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#331
1962
Peak year
1962
568 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,707
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Tod

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

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Names with a curve like Tod

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Tod, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Tod

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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