Bud
The boy's name Bud has been in the national records since 1880, with 9,502 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 6,803rd. About 2,900 Buds are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 65.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Bud
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 9,502
- Estimated living today
- 2,900
- Median age today
- 65
- Peak year
- 1928
- Best rank
- 410th
- Rank in 2025
- 6,803rd
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Buds are
born that year still alive today
Of the 9,502 babies given the name since 1880, about 2,900 are alive — 31 in every hundred. Roughly 140 of them are children and 1,500 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1960 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin English
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Buds
- Bud Spencer (1929–2016)Italian actor, lawyer, professional swimmer and water polo player
- Bud Abbott (1897–1974)American actor, producer and comedian
- Bud Luckey (1934–2018)American animator
- Bud Powell (1924–1966)American jazz pianist and composer
- Bud Houser (1901–1994)American shot putter and discus thrower
- Bud Cort (1948–2026)American actor
- Bud Yorkin (1926–2015)American producer, director, and screenwriter
- Bud Jamison (1895–1944)Actor
People named Bud with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Bud is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Bud is most concentrated in Idaho (5.2×), Oklahoma (4.1×), Utah (3.4×), Washington (3.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1928
The most popular boys’ names the year Bud peaked:
Related names
Bud 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.