Name meaning & stats
Bud
Bud (English origin). 3,806 US babies since 1940, peak 1959.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
English
In US birth records
Peak year: 1959
3,806 US babies were named Bud between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Bud (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 89% of the family
- Bud 89%
- Budd 11%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1959)