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Teddi vs Tedra

American parents have registered 2,014 Teddis since 1880, against 822 Tedras. Teddi is still ahead, with 74 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Teddi against Tedra, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Teddi Tedra

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 84 years in which either name was published, Teddi for 69 years and Tedra for 15 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Teddi Tedra
Total US births 2,014822
Most in one year 7496
Babies in 2025 74under 5
Estimated living today 1,800760
Median age today 3948
Peak year 20251972
Best rank 2,410th girls1,141st girls
Rank in 2025 2,410thunranked
First recorded 19401939
Girls / boys 2,014 / 0822 / 0

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 Tedras alive today are over 48; half the Teddis are over 39. That is 9 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: Teddi and Tedra.