Ted

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Ted: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Ted: Recorded since 1958, it reached #90 in 2021, and it stood at #170 in 2025.

5registrars recorded it
100times a registrar ranked it
68years from first to last
#90highest recorded position
20groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#784
1997	#1257
1998	#616
1999	#596
2000	#480
2001	#433
2002	#382
2003	#381
2004	#338
2005	#365
2006	#296
2007	#345
2008	#336
2009	#335
2010	#278
2011	#237
2012	#226
2013	#179
2014	#155
2015	#150
2016	#160
2017	#179
2018	#167
2019	#172
2020	#203
2021	#199
2022	#233
2023	#244
2024	#232

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 33 of the 68 years from 1958 to 2025.

In 2025: #170 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #476 among boys in Norway.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1958–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1958
First recorded at #484 among boys in Norway in 1958 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1999–2025
Highest recorded position: #90 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2021 (recorded 1999–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #476 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Ted appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 33 years beginning in 1958, and has registered 215 births with the name.

Ted across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Ted's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#484 (1958)	#347 (1965)	#476 (2025)	33 of 68	215 (1958–2025)	12 (1977)
England and Wales · Boys	#784 (1996)	#150 (2015)	#232 (2024)	29 of 29	5,061 (1996–2024)	379 (2015)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#379 (1999)	#90 (2021)	#170 (2025)	25 of 27	582 (1999–2025)	70 (2021)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#311 (2012)	#158 (2021)	#256 (2024)	12 of 13	96 (2012–2024)	15 (2021)

Ted by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Ted in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1950s	4	1 of 10	4
1960s	31	4 of 10	8
1970sbusiest	85	10 of 10	9
1980s	38	7 of 10	5
1990s	13	3 of 10	4
2000s	5	1 of 10	5
2010s	15	3 of 10	5
2020s	24	4 of 10	6

Across Norway · Boys, the 1970s were its busiest decade, averaging 9 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Ted appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1958 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #90 in Republic of Ireland in 2021.

Ted's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#232	212	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#244	195	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#233	209	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#199	273	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#203	247	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#172	316	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#167	333	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#179	314	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#160	368	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#150	379	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#155	366	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#179	314	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#226	227	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#237	201	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#278	165	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#335	118	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#336	115	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#345	106	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#296	119	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#365	86	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#338	89	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#381	69	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#382	62	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#433	49	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#480	41	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#596	30	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#616	29	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1257	10	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#784	19	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#256	7	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#232	8	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#177	12	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#158	15	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#231	8	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#226	9	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	male	#283	6	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#363	4	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	male	#314	5	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	male	#213	10	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	male	#244	7	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	male	#311	5	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#476	5	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#463	5	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#396	8	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#428	6	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#515	4	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#489	5	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#472	6	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#512	5	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#610	4	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#569	5	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#646	4	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#601	5	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#597	5	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#636	4	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#565	6	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#562	6	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#564	6	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#569	6	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#511	7	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#638	4	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#367	12	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#526	6	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#408	10	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#442	9	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#423	9	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#373	11	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#458	8	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#418	9	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#397	9	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#477	6	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#472	6	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#347	10	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#484	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#170	29	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#91	61	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#133	42	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#112	55	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#90	70	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#139	43	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#148	39	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#163	36	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#305	14	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#190	30	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#210	26	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#246	22	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#219	26	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#336	12	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#263	19	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#422	8	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#429	7	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#601	4	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#342	9	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#493	4	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#302	8	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#351	6	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#423	4	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#348	5	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	male	#379	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#619	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 5 registrars between 1958 and 2025, ranked in 55 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #90, first reached in 2021.

It held a top-100 place in 2 years.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 379 births, registered in England and Wales in 2015.

Its record falls into 8 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 6 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 66 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Teaghan · #383, 10y
Teah · #910, 22y
Teddi · #1586, 14y
Teddie · #228, 27y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Felicity · #88, 51y
Karla · #88, 53y
Mira · #92, 50y
Alistair · #87, 51y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Cornelia · #90, 63y
Howard · #90, 53y
Kaye · #89, 20y
Harold · #88, 50y

Ted was ranked #90 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2021. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Ted and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Ted without appearing here.

Ted moved ahead of

Graeme Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1257 and #874 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #616 and #1367.
Jonas Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1257 and #1174 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #616 and #1110.
Geoffrey Compare
In 1998 they stood at #616 and #571 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #596 and #1082.
Roger Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1257 and #694 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #616 and #1000.

Moved ahead of Ted

Theo Compare
In 2004 they stood at #610 and #611 in Norway · Boys; by 2005 that had become #512 and #94.
Logan Compare
In 2005 they stood at #351 and #439 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2006 that had become #493 and #158.
Samuel Compare
In 1975 they stood at #408 and #505 in Norway · Boys; by 1976 that had become #526 and #260.
Leo Compare
In 1985 they stood at #562 and #628 in Norway · Boys; by 1986 that had become #636 and #394.

Moved the opposite way to Ted

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ted went from #784 to #232 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ted went from #784 to #232 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ted went from #784 to #232 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ted went from #784 to #232 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Ted

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ted went from #784 to #232 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ted went from #784 to #232 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ted went from #784 to #232 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ted went from #784 to #232 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1958 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #90 in Republic of Ireland in 2021. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ted

Ted at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ted across 4 official records

Ted by decade in Norway · Boys

Ted appears in

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Ted at a glance

Ted across 4 official records

Ted by decade in Norway · Boys

Ted appears in

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