Todd
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from a medieval nickname for someone thought to resemble a fox, or to be cunning or red-haired; from northern Middle English tod 'fox' (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 34 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/tɑd/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Todd is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 238,713 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. Todd is also written টুড in Bengali and 토드 in Korean (Hangul).
- IEIreland≈1 in 800(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 890
- CACanada≈1 in 910
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #364 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 626 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 803 (inferred from the name graph)
238,713 people, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Todd in other scripts: Bengali and Korean (Hangul)
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Todd
- English:/tɑd/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from a medieval nickname for someone thought to resemble a fox, or to be cunning or red-haired; from northern Middle English tod 'fox'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Todd, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Todd counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #143 | 238,713 | 1 in 1.4K | 238K | Todd | 626 |
| GB United Kingdom | #284 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 522 | Todd | 287 |
| CA Canada | #163 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 910 | 2 | Todd | 269 |
| AU Australia | #260 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 103 | Todd | 250 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | — | Todd | 44 |
| IE Ireland | #123 | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 803 | — | Todd | 58 |
| NZ New Zealand | #165 | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 888 | 16 | Todd | 142 |
238,713 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Todd is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Originally a surname; from Middle English todae, meaning “fox”.
as a nameIrish first names
In English, From fox/wolf, an aspirational nickname surname. First recorded with Baldwin Tod at Lamberton, Berwickshire, c.1270.
as a nameScottish Surnames
Transferred use of the surname, which was originally a nickname from an English dialect word meaning ‘fox’. itional Gaelic name Torcall, originally a borrowing of the Old Norse personal name Porketill, composed of the name of the god Porr + ketill ‘(sacrificial) cauldron’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, a fox in some way, for example in cunning or slyness, or perhaps more obviously in having red hair, from Northern ME tod(de) fox (of unknown origin). Var.; Tod (Scots). Tode see Terry Todeschini see Tedesco
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, An English and Scottish surname transferred from the nickname from Middle English tod (“fox”).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- James Spaderb. 1960USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
- Todd Phillipsb. 1970USAmerican filmmaker
- Todd Youngb. 1972USUnited States Senator from Indiana
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)65 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 34 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Todd mean, and where does it come from?
- from a medieval nickname for someone thought to resemble a fox, or to be cunning or red-haired; from northern Middle English tod 'fox'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- What are other forms of the name Todd?
- In the etymology graph, Tod is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Is Todd a male or female name?
- Todd is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Finland (DVV), Norway (SSB) and Australia (NSW BDM, 1992).
- How do you pronounce Todd?
- In English /tɑd/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people named Todd?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 239 thousand people named Todd, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled todd. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Todd?
- In the United States, the national register counted 238,713 people named Todd in 2020, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Todd compared with other names?
- In the United States, Todd is the 143rd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Todd?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/toddThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Todd” — ranked 238th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.