Buddy
Buddy is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 29 births. Its best rank was 202nd, in 1935.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 290.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1935604 births
- Best rank
- #202in 1935
- Since 1893
- 22,516people given the name
The story in the numbers
22,516 boys have been named Buddy in the United States since 1893, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1935, with 604 births.
The name has all but left use: 29 births in 2024, against 604 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1948, and the 1930s alone account for 23%. It has spent 90 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Buddy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 33 | |
| 1900s | 121 | |
| 1910s | 604 | |
| 1920s | 1,912 | |
| 1930s | 5,103 | |
| 1940s | 4,000 | |
| 1950s | 3,449 | |
| 1960s | 2,744 | |
| 1970s | 1,889 | |
| 1980s | 1,291 | |
| 1990s | 583 | |
| 2000s | 357 | |
| 2010s | 271 | |
| 2020s | 159 |
In 1935, its biggest year
Buddy was the 202nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1935 were Robert, James, John, William and Richard. See all of 1935.
Names that rose and fell with Buddy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Donpeak 1946
- Genepeak 1937
- Billypeak 1934
- Geraldpeak 1942
- Donaldpeak 1934
- Geroldpeak 1939
- Bobbypeak 1937
- Daroldpeak 1932
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.