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The name Ted is a diminutive form of Edward. The table below indicates the number of times the name Ted 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 Ted**
Use of the Name Ted for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
73,100	31,126	4,248	285	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Ted has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Ted last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1996, 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 Ted**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	521	13
1881	774	7
1882	513	14
1883	521	13
1884	652	10
1885	635	10
1886	643	10
1887	376	20
1888	414	21
1889	358	25
1890	414	20
1891	375	22
1892	539	15
1893	608	12
1894	398	23
1895	398	24
1896	356	30
1897	358	28
1898	306	39
1899	305	34
1900	231	76
1901	213	64
1902	192	87
1903	211	71
1904	190	94
1905	170	115
1906	199	89
1907	189	112
1908	188	113
1909	185	122
1910	204	127
1911	264	97
1912	220	244
1913	239	247
1914	244	308
1915	242	403
1916	235	455
1917	222	495
1918	221	564
1919	217	576
1920	230	546
1921	217	611
1922	222	602
1923	215	597
1924	219	612
1925	210	667
1926	190	763
1927	192	757
1928	172	833
1929	168	847
1930	157	977
1931	155	978
1932	147	1,070
1933	144	1,046
1934	146	1,050
1935	144	1,083
1936	146	1,061
1937	147	1,060
1938	147	1,113
1939	149	1,080
1940	160	1,042
1941	157	1,091
1942	156	1,256
1943	158	1,231
1944	160	1,158
1945	155	1,233
1946	156	1,486
1947	157	1,645
1948	164	1,465
1949	169	1,374
1950	170	1,356
1951	180	1,383
1952	182	1,413
1953	190	1,297
1954	191	1,342
1955	190	1,403
1956	191	1,457
1957	184	1,636
1958	173	1,737
1959	181	1,672
1960	184	1,696
1961	184	1,678
1962	179	1,702
1963	190	1,573
1964	185	1,508
1965	201	1,240
1966	213	1,071
1967	231	949
1968	219	1,052
1969	222	1,052
1970	246	943
1971	267	802
1972	284	668
1973	321	543
1974	351	479
1975	363	454
1976	367	432
1977	383	419
1978	410	358
1979	425	354
1980	431	362
1981	449	339
1982	479	314
1983	487	301
1984	501	286
1985	535	265
1986	511	297
1987	542	283
1988	534	291
1989	594	269
1990	642	250
1991	776	176
1992	760	188
1993	790	179
1994	834	163
1995	894	150
1996	955	135
Totals:		73,100		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Ted 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 slightly lower than actual counts because the name Ted appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 117 times during the last 125 years.

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