Teddy

Where Teddy comes from

From Ted + -y.
— Wiktionary's entry for Teddy
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1890
    First appearance
    #884 among boys, 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 — more than any year before or since.
  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.