Teddy

Where Teddy comes from

From Ted + -y.
— Wiktionary's entry for Teddy
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Teddy through the years
  1. 1890
    First appearance
    #884 among boys with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1926
    Teddy Scholten born
    Dutch singer
  3. 1933
    Peak, #239
    476 babies named Teddy, its best rank.
  4. 1966
    Teddy Sheringham born
    English footballer and manager
  5. 1982
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #579.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given names Edward and Theodore, or of their diminutives Ted and Tedd.
Namesakes
  • Teddy Sheringham · English footballer and manager, born 1966
  • Teddy Scholten · Dutch singer, 1926–2010
  • Teddy Riner · French judoka, born 1989
  • Teddy Kollek · Israeli politician, 1911–2007
  • Teddy Lučić · Swedish footballer, born 1973

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.