girls:
45 births since 1925
#5671 (1st percentile)
boys:
22.5k births since 1893
#762 (83rd percentile)
overall:
22.5k births since 1893
#1690 (78th percentile)
The name Buddy is the #1,690 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 22,531 recorded births since 1893. This represents the 78.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 78.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #762 (83.4% percentile) for all time with 22,486 births since 1893. For girls, it ranks #5,671 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 45 births since 1925.
Buddy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1893 (1893 for boys and 1925 for girls). Birth data for Buddy is available in 129 out of the 131 years between 1893 and 2023 (129 years for boys and 8 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Buddy has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Buddy reached its peak popularity in 1935, achieving the 62.3% percentile (ranked #195) with 565 births per million. The name was most common in 1935, with 565 births per million (ranked 62.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Buddy ranks #878 for boys (3.6% percentile) with 21 births per million, which is 3.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Buddy reached its peak popularity in 1938, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #587) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1938, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1980.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Buddy".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Buddy is pronounced as BUH-dee, which has 2 syllables.
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