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The name Ned is of English origin, and is a diminutive form of Edward. The table below indicates the number of times the name Ned 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 Ned**
Use of the Name Ned for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
15,855	3,281	0	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Ned has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Ned last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1976, 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 Ned**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	289	33
1881	407	18
1882	303	33
1883	304	30
1884	367	24
1885	340	26
1886	293	35
1887	318	28
1888	340	30
1889	334	28
1890	240	49
1891	337	26
1892	382	25
1893	299	34
1894	273	42
1895	293	38
1896	327	34
1897	350	29
1898	327	35
1899	284	38
1900	310	46
1901	404	22
1902	351	32
1903	426	23
1904	293	44
1905	418	27
1906	383	32
1907	290	54
1908	352	42
1909	351	45
1910	401	44
1911	341	64
1912	369	109
1913	337	148
1914	351	178
1915	331	254
1916	358	226
1917	325	280
1918	328	304
1919	343	271
1920	349	285
1921	355	286
1922	346	294
1923	353	280
1924	342	293
1925	354	276
1926	340	293
1927	364	259
1928	322	301
1929	329	282
1930	357	258
1931	345	253
1932	340	262
1933	348	239
1934	333	269
1935	347	253
1936	336	265
1937	320	289
1938	318	299
1939	312	318
1940	339	281
1941	348	277
1942	370	272
1943	367	279
1944	370	264
1945	373	260
1946	393	274
1947	387	311
1948	402	285
1949	407	272
1950	403	281
1951	399	291
1952	425	269
1953	439	263
1954	446	261
1955	456	263
1956	472	255
1957	484	261
1958	514	227
1959	530	220
1960	532	221
1961	561	196
1962	566	194
1963	577	188
1964	642	147
1965	657	128
1966	651	130
1967	748	97
1968	713	112
1969	716	120
1970	820	98
1971	769	114
1972	943	73
1973
1974	909	80
1975	916	80
1976	951	77
Totals:		15,855		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Ned 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 Ned appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 96 times during the last 125 years.

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