US BIRTHS · 1880–2025

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Ted name popularity

Ted has been given to 75,424 babies in the United States since 1880.

It peaked in 1958, when 1,748 babies got the name, and its best rank was #318 in 1933.

In 2025, 37 babies were named Ted (#6,835 in the country), 98% below the peak. That is down 23% from 2015.

Almost every Ted is a boy.

An estimated 45K people named Ted are alive in the US today, with a median age of 66.

HOW IT WORKS

The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.

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