Neddie

Where Neddie comes from

The dictionaries list Neddie as a given name — alternative form of Neddy (“male name”) — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1916
    First appearance
    #3,919 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1918
    Peak, #3,244
    9 babies named Neddie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1919
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1958
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • Alternative form of Neddy (“male name”).
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Neddie hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.