Todd

68,395 people in America carry this name — ranked #478 of 777.

A surname with a trade, a place or a father behind it.

Say it TAHD

1 syllable · the capitals are the stressed part

Phonetic transcription

T AA1 D — ARPAbet, as published in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. The digit on a vowel marks its stress.

People counted 68,395 2020 Census
Per 100,000 22.9 about 1 in 4,846 people
As a first name 238,713 ranked #238 the other way round

The meaning and origin of Todd

Reads literally as “tod, a Scotch word for a fox”.

Origins are a matter of scholarly argument rather than record, and a name can be traced more than one way. We state one reading and say where it came from.

A name and a surname

Todd is carried in front of the comma and behind it — thousands of Americans have it as a surname too.

By sound First names that fit Todd Which names sit well before it, and which rhyme or double up — with the reason for each.

Who carries it today

White alone (non-Hispanic) — 77.7%
Black or African American alone (non-Hispanic) — 13.4%
Hispanic or Latino origin — 3.2%
Two or more races — 4.4%
Asian and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone — 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native alone — 0.6%

Categories are how people answered the census — a fact about the bearers, not a property of the name. Conclusions are ours, not the Census Bureau’s.

Names about as common

The nearest entries above and below by number of people.

Surnames with the same rhythm as Todd

Ends on the same sound

Dodd 29,440

Same rhythm — 1 syllables, stress on the first

Matched on phonemes, not spelling, so the lists follow the ear rather than the page.

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Where this page gets its numbers

Counts, ranks and shares: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census tabulations of first and last names occurring 100 or more times. Percentages, bands and groupings are our own arithmetic — the conclusions are ours, not the Bureau’s.
Pronunciation, syllables and rhyme groups: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, Carnegie Mellon University. The plain-English respelling is ours.
Origins and the forms a name takes in other languages: Charlotte Yonge, History of Christian Names, 1884 — a public-domain work. Scholarship has moved on since, so read it as one reading of a name, not the last word.

Below a hundred people we publish no figure at all — the same threshold the Census Bureau applies to us. What each source covers