Tad
The boy's name Tad has been in the national records since 1912, with 6,929 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 7,194th. About 5,800 Tads are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 51.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Tad
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 6,929
- Estimated living today
- 5,800
- Median age today
- 51
- Peak year
- 1966
- Best rank
- 470th
- Rank in 2025
- 7,194th
- First recorded
- 1912
How old the living Tads are
born that year still alive today
Of the 6,929 babies given the name since 1912, about 5,800 are alive — 83 in every hundred. Roughly 290 of them are children and 780 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1974 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Tads
- Tad Williams (born 1957)American fantasy and science fiction writer
- Tad Lincoln (1853–1871)Fourth son of President Abraham Lincoln
People named Tad with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Tad is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Tad is most concentrated in Utah (4.1×), Washington (3.3×), Iowa (2.8×), Oregon (2.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1966
The most popular boys’ names the year Tad peaked:
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Tad against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.