Todd
About 283,390 American babies have been named Todd since 1881, most of them around 1964. In 2025 it ranked 1,609th. About 242,000 Todds are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 55.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Todd boys named Todd
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 283,390
- Estimated living today
- 242,000
- Median age today
- 55
- Peak year
- 1964
- Best rank
- 28th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,609th
- First recorded
- 1881
- Girls / boys
- 1,060 / 282,330
How old the living Todds are
born that year still alive today
Of the 283,390 babies given the name since 1881, about 242,000 are alive — 86 in every hundred. Roughly 3,200 of them are children and 19,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1970 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 a surname
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Todds
- Todd Phillips (born 1970)American filmmaker
- Todd Haynes (born 1961)American film director and screenwriter
- Todd Woodbridge (born 1971)Australian tennis player
- Robert Todd Lincoln (1843–1926)Union Army officer, U.S. ambassador, and Secretary of War
- Todd Graff (born 1959)American actor, writer and director
- Todd Howard (born 1970)American video game designer, director, and producer
- Todd McFarlane (born 1961)Canadian artist and entrepreneur
- Todd Young (born 1972)United States Senator from Indiana
People named Todd with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Todd is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Todd is most concentrated in South Dakota (2.7×), North Dakota (2.4×), Wisconsin (2.4×), Minnesota (2.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1964
The most popular boys’ names the year Todd peaked:
Todd elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Todd | 1,672 | 202nd |
| New Zealand boys | Todd | 1,264 | 71st |
| Scotland boys | Todd | 99 | 211th |
| France boys | Todd | 55 | 1,682nd |
| Northern Ireland boys | Todd | 21 | 210th |
| Ireland boys | Todd | 12 | 369th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Todd among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Todd | 28 | 40 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Todd against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.