Todd is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
Todd is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1046 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,045 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 278,459 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Todd. That is 0.08 % of all living Americans.
Who would have thought it? After many years of not appearing at all in the SmartGenius statistics, Todd reached its highest rank ever in the year 1970 at #28. In other words: 14,477 newborn boys were named Todd that year. Since then, it has been considered to be a universally popular name, chosen by a large number of happy parents every year. Although the times of its highest popularity are now many decades ago, Todd is still going strong and has not been forgotten yet. We can only wait and see if there will be a new surprise in store and if Todd will be able to top its all-time best ranking ever again.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Todd was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Todd ranked 1,345 in our SmartGenius statistics. In absolute figures, this means it was given to baby boys a total of 123 times. No one knows what names (or combinations of numbers and letters) will be popular 50 years from now, but given its consistent popularity, there is a good chance that Todd will remain a universally popular name.
There are only 386 different male names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Todd is one of them. However, Todd is not equally widespread in all states, but people in South Dakota seem to particularly fancy this name – the 2,602 men called Todd who live here are 0,457% of all male residents and push their name up to #48 in our SmartGenius statistics, easily placing it in the top 100 most common male names in South Dakota. If you look at all the states in the USA together, you can currently find as many as 278,459 people with the name Todd. Across all regions and age groups, this lands Todd on position 123 in our SmartGenius ranking of the top male names – of course, the current popularity as a baby name for newborns looks somewhat different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter T is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names. That’s because 6.3% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J, A and D.
With four letters, the name Todd is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 6.3% of all boys' names that begin with the letter T, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. And Thomas is the boys’ name starting with T, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Todd and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Todd, you can simply say:
Tiger
Orange
Dinosaur
Dinosaur
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Todd
Todd
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
T
O
D
D
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
T
O
D
D
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Todd sounds like this:
