Teddie
Feminine · “gift of God”
Teddie is given to both — 1,081 girls and 1,458 boys since 1880. See Teddie as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Teddie is a short form with several parents — Theodora, Theodosia, Edith — and it belongs to a period when American women were freely given men's nicknames as names.
How old is the name Teddie?
Teddie first appears in US birth records in 1919 — 106 years ago. The typical Teddie alive today was born around 1958, making them about 67 years old. About 800 people named Teddie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Teddie most popular?
Teddie peaked in 1941, reaching #1569 nationally. Today it ranks #3780, 2,211 places below that high. See the whole 1941 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Teddie
Ours, offered as ours. The 1930s and 1940s gave American women a set of names borrowed straight from men's short forms — Teddie, Bobbie, Frankie, Billie, Jackie — and they were registered as full names in real numbers. That was a deliberate small change in how women could be named, and it happened quickly. Teddie belongs to it. Its parents are various and the point was never the parent; the point was the shape.
Meaningscholars disagree
gift of God, or wealth in war
Through Theodora the name reaches Greek theos and doron, gift of God. Through Edith it reaches Old English ead, wealth, and gyth, war. The short form carries whichever parent a family had, and often neither.
Pronouncing Teddie
TED-ee
Two syllables, first stressed. Teddie and Teddy are said identically.
Nicknames for Teddie
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1919
- Most girls named
- 202539 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1569reached in 1941
- Change vs 2023
- +95.0%39 in 2025, from 20
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Teddie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Teddy in English — spelling variant
- Theodora in Greek — related form
- Edith in English — related form
Teddies among us
people named Teddie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 41,212 born in 2025 was named Teddie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Genieve test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Teddie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Genieve climbed just as high around 1915, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Genieve's path sketches the road Teddie is walking now.
Teddie sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Teddie is headed
Teddie should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Teddie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Teddie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Warm and immediately friendly, and understood by everyone.
- Theodora and Edith both stand behind it as fuller formal options.
- Genuine mid-century American use for women, which is a real precedent.
- It is far more common for men, so she will correct assumptions.
- A teddy bear is the first association for most people.
- It reads as a nickname, which may matter on a formal document.
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Frequently asked
- How many Teddies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Teddie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Teddie in 2025?
- Teddie ranks #3780 among US girl names in 2025, with 39 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Teddie?
- About 1 in every 41,212 US girls born in 2025 was named Teddie — 39 in all.
- Will my child share the name Teddie with classmates?
- Teddie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Teddie
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