Teddie

Where Teddie comes from

Teddie hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1890
    Teddie Gerard born
    Argentine actress and entertainer
  2. 1900
    First appearance
    #1,310 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1903
    Peak, #846
    8 babies named Teddie — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1905
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 2015
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Teddie Gerard · Argentine actress and entertainer, 1890–1942

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.