Buddy
A boys’ name of Modern American origin, meaning friend; informal term of endearment.
Buddy by the numbers
In 2025, 28 babies in England and Wales were named Buddy. In the US, 28 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 604 babies in 1935, so it is a 1930s name that has since fallen a long way.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Buddy. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean friendship
Like Buddy, each of these has friendship in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Dakotafriends; allies2,330 in the US (2017)
- Edwinwealthy friend; prosperity and companionship1,027 in the US (2017)
- Khalilfriend; one who is close128 in England and Wales (2025)
- Marvinfamous friend483 in the US (2017)
- Alvinnoble friend; elf friend432 in the US (2017)
- Aldenold friend; from ald and wine425 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Buddy
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