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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Ted

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#3,229

down −323 places

2025 births

37

down −7 births

All-time births

75,160

0% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1958
1,743 births
Best rank
#144
in 1935
First recorded
1880
#521 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1951
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
146 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 19581,743#173Peak
  2. 19621,701#180
  3. 19601,695#184
  4. 19611,683#183
  5. 19591,672#181

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #144 in 1935 · peak births 1,743 in 1958

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 100% boys■ 0% girls

75,160 boys · 264 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Ted has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.