Name profile

Todd

A name meaning "fox".

PronunciationAmerican English /ˈtɑd/; British English /ˈtɒd/
Usage languagesEnglish
US rank (2025)#1,609

Meaning and history

Todd derives from an English surname meaning "fox," from Middle English todde. Rare as a given name before 1930, it peaked across much of the English-speaking world in the 1960s or the following decade before declining.

Popularity over timeUS births · boys
20062006: 354 births, rank #652
2007: 326 births, rank #710
2008: 287 births, rank #773
2009: 235 births, rank #889
2010: 264 births, rank #810
20112011: 244 births, rank #864
2012: 237 births, rank #884
2013: 207 births, rank #966
2014: 180 births, rank #1,074
2015: 212 births, rank #976
20162016: 185 births, rank #1,065
2017: 162 births, rank #1,159
2018: 158 births, rank #1,195
2019: 157 births, rank #1,214
2020: 123 births, rank #1,408
20212021: 115 births, rank #1,529
2022: 123 births, rank #1,468
2023: 112 births, rank #1,558
2024: 108 births, rank #1,589
20252025: 105 births, rank #1,609

Todd moved from #969 to #976 for boys between 2013 and 2015. Its highest annual birth count came in 1964, with 15,350 births.