Tod

Where Tod comes from

Tod 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.

Along the way
  1. 1880
    Tod Browning born
    American film actor and director
  2. 1914
    Tod Andrews born
    American actor
  3. 1915
    First appearance
    #2,184 among boys, 12 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 1962
    Peak, #331
    568 babies named Tod — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1966
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #456.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Tod Browning · American film actor and director, 1880–1962
  • Tod Andrews · American actor, 1914–1972
  • Tod D. Wolters · American Air Force general, born 1960
  • Tod Brown · Bishop of Orange in California, 1936–2023
  • Tod Robinson Caldwell · American politician, 1818–1874

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.