Name meaning & stats
Buddy
Buddy (English origin). 14,787 US babies since 1940, peak 1942.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
English
In US birth records
Peak year: 1942
14,787 US babies were named Buddy between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Buddy (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
Buddy is the main spelling
- Buddy 97%
- Buddie 3%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1942)