How Many People Are Named Buddy?
people named Buddy are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 30,054 people in the US has this name
Based on 22,585 babies named Buddy in Social Security records from 1893 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
604 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From the English word meaning "friend". It probably originated as a nursery form of the word brother.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Buddy (99.8%) were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Buddy alive today is about 59 years old, and 56% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 47 and 74 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Buddy first appears in the records in 1893 and was given most often in 1935, to 604 babies. In 2025, 23 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1893 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Buddy has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #202, in 1935. In 2025 it ranked #4,417.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #4,417 |
| Best rank | #202 (1935) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #233 in the 1930s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Buddy alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Buddy were born in Texas than in any other state: about 1,131 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Buddy was given 4.5 times as often in Oklahoma, 3.4 times in Arkansas and 2.8 times in Tennessee.
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