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The name Buddy is of English origin, and means friend. The table below indicates the number of times the name Buddy has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Buddy**
Use of the Name Buddy for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
21,004	7,549	1,193	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Buddy has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Buddy first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1894, which is the first year shown on the table. Buddy last appeared in either or both of these name lists during 1988, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Buddy**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1894	873	7
1895
1896	678	11
1897
1898
1899
1900	850	10
1901	787	8
1902	561	15
1903
1904	731	11
1905	936	8
1906	617	15
1907	594	18
1908	714	14
1909	683	16
1910	431	40
1911	827	16
1912	736	34
1913	619	51
1914	610	68
1915	756	63
1916	725	69
1917	739	71
1918	624	97
1919	624	94
1920	623	103
1921	598	112
1922	567	126
1923	530	132
1924	462	176
1925	459	172
1926	389	228
1927	363	259
1928	364	254
1929	297	353
1930	267	440
1931	249	460
1932	247	466
1933	220	519
1934	227	515
1935	202	604
1936	221	520
1937	216	549
1938	229	523
1939	234	496
1940	263	453
1941	267	448
1942	266	503
1943	297	426
1944	299	397
1945	328	327
1946	339	358
1947	348	379
1948	358	353
1949	365	342
1950	346	379
1951	357	371
1952	386	318
1953	381	330
1954	395	328
1955	380	358
1956	408	347
1957	417	349
1958	418	352
1959	447	320
1960	424	356
1961	406	376
1962	436	336
1963	454	302
1964	472	280
1965	482	260
1966	514	216
1967	512	215
1968	546	190
1969	538	213
1970	591	188
1971	547	216
1972	520	229
1973	553	203
1974	606	175
1975	606	179
1976	630	169
1977	617	185
1978	631	174
1979	658	168
1980	741	139
1981	691	156
1982	662	173
1983	734	138
1984	757	130
1985	829	116
1986	825	121
1987	864	116
1988	941	104
Totals:		21,004		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Buddy as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Buddy appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 90 times during the last 125 years.

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