Meaning and history
This name comes from the English word meaning “friend” and probably originated as a nursery form of brother.
20062006: 25 births, rank #3,888
2007: 32 births, rank #3,379
2008: 28 births, rank #3,744
2009: 43 births, rank #2,800
2010: 22 births, rank #4,366
20112011: 27 births, rank #3,792
2012: 38 births, rank #3,002
2013: 23 births, rank #4,180
2014: 35 births, rank #3,154
2015: 27 births, rank #3,882
20162016: 30 births, rank #3,596
2017: 28 births, rank #3,781
2018: 23 births, rank #4,354
2019: 18 births, rank #5,153
2020: 24 births, rank #4,141
20212021: 35 births, rank #3,297
2022: 32 births, rank #3,533
2023: 39 births, rank #3,117
2024: 29 births, rank #3,793
20252025: 23 births, rank #4,396
Buddy moved from #866 to #943 for boys between 1987 and 1988. Its highest annual birth count came in 1935, with 604 births.