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Tedd vs Tedrick

American parents have registered 1,261 Tedds since 1880, against 750 Tedricks. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tedd against Tedrick, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tedd Tedrick

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 90 years in which either name was published, Tedrick for 46 years and Tedd for 44 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Tedd Tedrick
Total US births 1,261750
Most in one year 5323
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 940710
Median age today 6033
Peak year 19631982
Best rank 1,037th boys2,207th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19231952
Girls / boys 0 / 1,2610 / 750

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Tedds alive today are over 60; half the Tedricks are over 33. That is 27 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tedd and Tedrick.